Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all.... Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.

If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.

I work when I feel like I can do something that pleases me, that I think I can give a little more than I've given up to yesterday.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.

When I was a child, fear was common to my life - fear of having nothing to eat, fear of the other children taunting me at school because I was illegitimate, and particularly fear of the big bombers appearing overhead and dropping their lethal bursts from the sky.

I am against all war.