I think it is every woman's duty to make herself as attractive as her time and means permit. After all, there you are, in your person- a living symbol of the progress of art, science and imagination. To be as attractive as we can be is almost a civic duty; there are so many sad and ugly things in the world that I think women should say to themselves humbly, not with vanity, 'I will try to be as pretty as I can, so that when people look at me, they will feel refreshed. I will make an effort to be easy on the eye.'

When traveling abroad if you see something you yearn for if you can afford it at all, buy it. If you don't you'll regret it all your life.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

I've got a heart like a college prom. Each one I dance with seems the best of all.

Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.

when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.