"What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system."

“The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.”

Source : Isamu Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Bonnie Rychlak, Isamu Noguchi Foundation (2004). “A sculptor's world”, Steidl / Edition7L

“Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.”

“I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.”

“I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.”

“There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.”

“You can have ambition But not too much You should aim to be successful But not too successful Otherwise you will threaten the man”

“I wish to have no status as a man. I am equally content to be a worm or a rat, and am only glad that I am not becuase they have such a rough time without the pleasure of painting.”

“The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.”

Source : Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations”, p.5