What kind of influence did my parents have on my life? Well, they had the most influence. These are the people who are closest to me. My parents are very positive people. They've been supportive. They're always there.
[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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?
Be fond of hearing rather than of talking.
"You listen to Portishead, you're not like the others. Want some coke?" I'm like, "Nah, man. "
Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.
The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.