Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

Age protects love not, but love protects up to a certain degree before age.

You suffer when you give birth, it doesn't matter, it's nature. They tell you, oh, those hormone pills, they're terrible, you'll get cancer. But when it comes to Viagra for men, they don't speak about cancer.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.

Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.