I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

Women have got to make the world safe for men, since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all

When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"

I married beneath me. All women do.