Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying?" (Seeing all her children assembled at her bedside in her last illness.)

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Nancy Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea."Winston Churchill: "Madame, i f you were my wife, I'd drink it!"(Exchange with Winston Churchill)

Nancy Astor: "Winston, you are a drunk!"Winston Churchill: "And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning."(Reported exchange will Winston Churchill.

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.

We cannot improve ourselves or our country without improving our educational system and educating ourselves.

And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!

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You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.

As a matter of fact - it'll probably ruin my movie career - but I think better storytellers are in television.

And connected I had been. When the fish changed directions, I felt it. when it slowed or sped up, I felt that too. It's such a raw thing, this shared existence with a piece of bucking biomass.

A lot of people don't even know there was a Journey before Steve Perry.

I do have rituals. I'm a fairly superstitious person.

I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.

'I am insecure' means: I can't cope on my own. The odds are overwhelming. I can't resist them on my own. I need us to join forces, stand shoulder to shoulder, march hand in hand.