Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.
All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.
A woman can produce what no man can: a child.
H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right. ' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.
Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?
My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking scent of old and literate dust.
I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.
Think globally, act locally.
Mr. Dingell is just plain Mr. Dingell. And when he gets to be chairman of the Commerce Committee, he doesn't let it go to his head. However, he thinks he would be a very, very good chairman.