Mary Leakey

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.

I never felt interpretation was my job.

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

I don't look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know.