I obeyed, but my crime was that I did not look obedient.

I found an inner strength to fight for myself. It was clear that nobody else would.

My mind became a sanctuary for secret thoughts of escaping from this household.

There will be a great imbalance in our strengths if we fight, because I am prepared to die and you are desperate to live.

He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge.

I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

Love is a worn-out word. People love their cat, they love their house. I've never been in love with anyone but myself.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.