Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!

Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.

All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays it’s no good being a cabbage – unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itself or give itself away. These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp.