I have a passionate desire for personal privacy. I want to stand before the world, for good or bad, on the book I wrote, not on what I say in letters to friends, not on my husband and my home life, the way I dress, my likes and dislikes, et cetera. My book belongs to anyone who has the price, but nothing of me belongs to the public.

You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

I don't see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast as 'Bonnie,' Mae West as 'Belle,' and Stepin Fetchit as 'Uncle Peter.'

Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.