I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

I think the thing we must look for actually is a growth in our people and in whoever comes in a quality of courage to tell our people just what world conditions are.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

A woman has, first of all, her duties in their own home, and there are many women particularly when they're young, who can do an active job in their community like being a mayor, but who cannot go to Washington or Albany or wherever the capital of the state is. There are others who can, can leave home, whose children are older and so forth. I think it all is a personal decision.

One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.