It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame.

[On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

My sister is a very peculiar lady. When we were young, I wasn't allowed to talk to her friends. Now I'm not allowed to talk to her children, nor are they permitted to see me. This is the nature of the lady. Doesn't bother me at all.

The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.

One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them.

If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby.