Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.

Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.