More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun.

Dress gives one the outward sign from which people in general can, and often do, judge upon the inward state of mind and feelings.

I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.

It takes two to get one in trouble.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

Give a man free hands, and you'll know where to find them.