Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental.

My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me.

Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens!

A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.

I find the scientific mind horrendous. All those brains and not a moral imperative between them.

No mass appeal. Ergo no profit. Ergo no use. The current World Credo.

A woman can do anything she wants as long as she doesn't do anything she wants! She can go anywhere she likes as long as she stays put!