"Either I did away with that fear through writing, or in the course of writing, I discovered it was no longer so intrusive or threating. The bottom line is, it's gone."

“We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.”

“I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.”

Source : Interview with Edouard Roditi in 1958. "Dialogues: Conversations With European Artists at Mid-Century". Book by Edouard Roditi, p. 114, 1990.

“As long as designers want to dress me, photographers want to take my picture and companies think my face will help their products, then I won't go anywhere until they're done with me.”

“To be an architect has been a life-long dream. Little did I know when asked at the age of 14 'what do you want to do when you grow up?' I said I wanted to be an architect. After 50 years I am still learning all what that means. Working together with so many people has been enormously gratifying. Being an architect means being a member of a fantastic team.”

“'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.”

Source : Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.340, University of Illinois Press

“When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable.”

“I've pretty much always had the same haircut my entire life.”

Source : Source: www.justjared.com

“It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per battle are higher.”