I Often Wish My Mother Had Died

When You Are Suffering, You Become More Understanding About Yourself, But Also About Other People's Sufferings Too. That's The First Step To Understand Somebody Is To Understand Their Sufferings. So Then Love Follows.

What Surprises Me Is-even Though Discrimination Against Women And Racial Discrimination Still Exist, They Have Improved A Lot, Especially Among Artists. And Just When I Felt I Could Finally Take A Break, I Encounter The Age Discrimination. I Turned 72 And Started Noticing A Drastic Difference In People's Attitudes. I Started With Racism And Sexism In The Beginning And Fought Them So Hard And Was Finally Ready To Relax. Then, Here Comes Ageism, And I Feel Like, "give Me A Break!"

Society Tells You That When You're Old You Have To Retire. You Have To Defy That.

Look At A Star In The Sky Not As Something Unreachable But As A Planet You Would Visit One Day.

I Was Born Into A Very Important Family In Japan. My Grandfather Was A Descendant Of The Emperor, And We Were Very Wealthy.