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

You know, I've had a helluva life.

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

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

The main problem in marriage is that, for a man, sex is a hunger-like eating. If the man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he'll go to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what's important is love and romance.

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?