I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

Men go after me, and I choose among them.

You cannot be beautiful and hate.

You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.