Lynn Gilbert

“The more you know, the more you can create. There’s no end to imagination in the kitchen.”

“There aren’t two sides to everything. There are eleven, or a hundred... and it’s a gross distortion of reality to say... there has to be a winner or a loser. Reality is much more diverse and interesting than that.”

"It was much easier for me to go "Rah! Rah!" with the movement than it was to change my own life personally. I have put myself into the situation, willy-nilly, of being the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. That's a little threatening for a man. So in that sense I've paid some price."

“I always have doubts about what I do. When I start a show, I’m very timid and nervous for weeks and months. It takes a great deal out of me. It’s hard work. You start with an idea and you believe in it and then it grows around you. It all comes gradually and then entirely... somehow it ends up that people like it and I’m very happy, and very proud, and very very pleased, because that’s the job.”

“I didn’t set out to try to change the world of dance. I had to do it because nobody cared a damn about dancing and I got fed up with people’s indifference."

"I always try to get my message across, but in different ways, with reason, with emotion, with humor, it depends."

"The work I do I’ve done basically for me. Why? Because I wanted to give meaning to my life. It’s the very best way I know how to live my life. 

How else could I live it?”

"People don’t change overnight. It doesn’t matter what the law says. You can have a civil rights act, you can make abortion legal, but you still have to deal with what people feel and think."