I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels.

Stripped of all their masquerades the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness rejection inferiority unmanageable anger illness and death.

Natural history is not about producing fables.

Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.

I should think you could be gladder on Monday mornin' than any other day in the week, because 'twould be a whole week before you'd have another one!

I hate Dr Phil. Dr Phil told me to express my feelings, so I'm expressing them.

Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said: Americans are too clean . . . I took no offense.

Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is a Great Wall of China between them!

I'm proud to be an Oakie from Muskogee, a place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse and white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all.

The husband provides direction; the wife, maintenance.

I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.