"There's a lot more to be learned, and I'm going to learn all the way up to the stairway to the stars"

“I think I have the best of both worlds because I am a woman, but I'm also a tomboy.”

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“Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.”

“It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.”

“In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer - were born in America.”

“I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhound bus and went to Alvin Ailey and received Dunham, Horton, Graham technique there, but I could never take my eyes off of Balanchine doing 'Nutcracker'; to me he's the best who ever did it.”

“I don't want to be a Hollywood star. I just want to do my job and enjoy it. My aim is to find my true identity and to remain true to myself.”

“If you can't eliminate injustice, at least tell everyone about it.”

Source : Shirin Ebadi (2011). “The Golden Cage: Three Brothers, Three Choices, One Destiny”, p.252, Kales Press

“Photographing these flowers has made me see the world differently. It was as if I had lifted a secret veil from a subject I had loved and appreciated my whole life. I offer these photographs with the hope that they will open a new visual or meditative universe for you as well.”