Yoko Ono

"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."

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Source: Yoko Ono on Lennon, Love, Feminism, and Japan. Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 22, 2011.

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Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono

Artist, Musician, Activist

Yoko Ono is a Japanese multimedia artist and peace activist known for her avant-garde art and influential role in the anti-war movement.

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