I never would just open a door and walk through, I had to bust it down for the hell of it. I just naturally liked doing things the hard way.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated by servants, and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character ... A good deal like human beings.

Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.