It is my private life which no one knows anything about, nor ever will. It needs more than half my time if it is to be a success.

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.

He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be.

Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.

I have been photographed to death.