Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

A woman can produce what no man can: a child.