"I am not interested in being a symbol. I am interested in doing my job."

"If we have to choose between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image."

"Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse."

"I don't understand why people are so surprised that I'm a woman. I've been a woman all my life."

"Being seventy is no sin, but it's not a joke either."