I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.

During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

The bigger a man's gun the smaller his doodlewick.

I'm drunk. Correct. What the f*** is it to you?

Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive.

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.

We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.

We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.

I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.

A Christmas gambol oft could cheerThe poor man's heart through half the year.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

You know, I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic.

Wit is a thing capable of proof.

Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.

Peace is perfected activity.

Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.