[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble; crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.

A great man is one sentence.

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.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

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

If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.