Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.

An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.

Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler.

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.

An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.

A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.

Never let them see you in public after you've turned 35. You're finished if you do!

I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue.

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity!Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life!(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

Free yourself from mental slavery. Break those invisible chains your masters put on your spiritual neck to control you

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

May I tell you a wonderful truth about your dog? ... You have been given stewardship of what you in your faith might call a holy soul.

It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.

Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.

Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved.

I mean somebody with the wit and the guts to go and do and create. And, that I believe is what education is all about

There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.

Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.