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.'

Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

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.