I quite liked having a baby – I think I won’t put it more strongly than that. But I had no intention of allowing motherhood to disrupt my work as an archeologist. – Mary Leakey
No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely. – Mary Leakey
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. – Mary Leakey
I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going. – Mary Leakey
I go once a year to the Serengeti to see the wildebeest migrations because that means a lot to me, but I avoid Olduvai if I can because it is a ruin. It is most depressing. – Mary Leakey
