I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

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

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.'

Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline.

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.

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.

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