My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

... [woman suffrage] has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman's vote as such. They divide up just about as men do.

[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.

If you can't think of anything nice to say, come sit here beside me.