The critic said, but don't you feel awkward about biting the hand that feeds you? I said no, I enjoy just gnawing it up to the shoulder.

Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.

I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

A strong pursuit, give no time for the enemy to think, take advantage of victory, uproot him, cut off his escape route.

I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

Do not take a blind guide.

The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless children.

I don't know what's meant by Know thyself, which seems to ask a window to look at a window.

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

All things can corrupt perverse minds.

I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.