Oh Mockingbird have you ever heard words that I’ve never heard
Thoughts have no sex.
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?
Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years after. ]
I think we just have to become more consistent.
I want to establish myself as the first Eric Davis, not the next Willie Mays.
I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.