My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.

Character is the architect of the being.

It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else.

It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.

A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.

I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.