Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

While in some quarters it is felt that the critic is just a necessary evil, most serious-minded, decent, talented theater people agree that the critic is an unnecessary evil.

... it's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.

Don't be silly. I'm a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I'm afraid of my mother.

To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now.

There is this to be said about having money. You get rejected by a higher class of people.

The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.