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.'

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, "Let's use the missiles." They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.