Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day's work out in the world, a very nerve-racking affair.

It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.

There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

Getting old is not for sissies.

Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold.

You try moving things with nothing but willpower. It's about as easy as trying to lasso a bull with a licorice

That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life

If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.

It's not bad to get blocked, it's terrible to stay blocked

Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think.

I'm not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left.

I look cooking! Particularly pad thai.

With performing live, you obviously don't get the luxury of another take, but for me, it is all the same.