One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she is anti-male; they even whisper that she's probably a lesbian.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do.