Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything
The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
I am an atheist and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.
I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn’t do what I wanted, I’d kill him.
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased
If you always do what interests you,at least one person is pleased.
Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased”.
I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to, and I’ve made enough money to support myself, and ain’t afraid of being alone.
What in the world would we do without our libraries?
If you give audiences a chance they’ll do half your acting for you.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant but inside I was always quaking.
If you always do what interests you at least one person is pleased.
I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
I was born lucky and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
If you have to support yourself you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.
I don’t think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
As for me prizes mean nothing. My prize is my work.
When I started out, I didn’t have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.
My greatest strength is common sense. I’m really a standard brand – like Campbell’s tomato soup or Baker’s chocolate.
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.