I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.

I'm not a beautiful woman. I'm nothing to look at, so the only thing I can do is dress better than anyone else.

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.