... [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.

I live by three rules: I eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired and scratch when I itch.

People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

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

My specialty is detached malevolence.

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