If you can't say something nice about someone, come and sit right here next to me.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

... [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.

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

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

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

He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.