I can't imagine a duller fate than being the best-dressed woman in reality. When I want to do something, I don't pause to contemplate whether I'm exquisitely gowned. I want to live, not pose!

I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.

A woman has just as much right in this world as a man and can get along in it just as well if she puts her mind to it.

Personally, I resent being tagged ‘glamour girl.’ It’s such an absurd, extravagant label. It implies so much that I’m not.

It is easier to die when the heart is full of gratitude.

Bill Powell is the only intelligent actor I've ever met

Only one person can own any plate at a time. It belongs to the pitcher, or it belongs to the batter, Aiken, but not to both. You understand.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.

Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn.

There's no justice in this world.

What was I supposed to say?.....did I tell them the Master had the hots for me, so I'd probably be okay? -Anita

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

Naturally, things are more complicated - those groovy, pro-social effects of oxytocin apply to how we interact with in-group members.

Poetry is devil's wine.

White women are a problem, that's, you know - we all live with that.