I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.
I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.
Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet
When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth. '
[On her 101-year-old sister and herself, at 103:] We have a lot to do. . . People don't understand this. They think we're sitting around in rocking chairs, which isn't at all true. Why, we don't even own a rocking chair.
Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?
Life is a vapor. It passes in the blink of an eye.
It's not worth having if it comes with no effort.
When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.
Eternity: The interval between the time when a woman discovers that a man is in love with her and the time when he finds it out himself and tells her about it.
I was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late '50s and early '60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking.