I always thought I had crooked eyebrows and crooked teeth. That's why I never understood why people called me a beauty.

I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.

The reason you get married is to be together, not to be separated.

My life has had meaning, with the friendships full and valuable and essential to me. My children, Steve, Leslie, and Sam, are all different-all first-rate human beings with high standards-whom I completely and unequivocally adore-don't always agree with-but always admire and respect. They all have wit and a sense of humor and, thank God, I have hung on to mine.

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.

You learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing.