I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.

I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects.

I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.

It doesn't matter what people think of me. I've lived my life.

So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.

I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.