No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered ...Read more

"I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always."

"Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family."

"[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket."

Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that they just about throw up.

"Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom."

"The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart -- far more damaging to yourself than to them."

"Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want."

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

"Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses."

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set.

"[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket."

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

It is really asking too much of a woman to expect her to bring up her husband and her children too.