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

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.'

Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

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

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

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