I would love to employ a man, but how can I possibly give a man dictation from the bath?

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

I always wear boot polish on my eyelashes, because I am a very emotional person and it doesn't run when I cry.

You become what you think. You are what you eat.

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.

I'll keep going till my face falls off.

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.

Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue will show what violence is.

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

My holy of holies is the human body.

Surrounded yourself with brilliant people. You can't HELP but grow when that happens.

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

There's a lot of feeling that the school curriculum has been bare-bones, just drill and, again, no art, music, and so on and so forth.

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy.

Let everyone know, I lived a very happy life.

I think every physical program has to come from good nutrition.