Men go after me, and I choose among them.

I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.

You cannot be beautiful and hate.

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

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.

Everybody asks me, 'So, what are you doing now?' Why must I be doing something? All my life I've been doing something. All my life I've been doing. For now, I'm being -- being quiet, being grateful.

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