What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.

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

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.

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

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.'

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.