I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.

I'm just a loud-mouthed middle-aged colored lady with a fused spine and three feet of intestines missing and a lot of people think I'm crazy. Maybe you do too, but I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. The mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.

The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea.

Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.

At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.

... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.

I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down.