There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband, no­­­-nobody. You have to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't you know I'm a child of God?

We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.

I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process.

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.

The most difficult thing in the world, it seems to me, is to realize that I am a child of God; to keep that in my mind all the time.

My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.