"I have never produced anything cold but always to some extent with my blood.
I do not want to die...until I have faithfully made the most of my talent
and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
I am in the world to change the world."

    

* Letters, memoirs and diaries (Ich sah die Welt mit liebvollen Blicken, 1970)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kollwitz.htm