And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.
I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.
It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice or even to visit it means that you fall in love with the city itself. There is nothing left over in your heart for anyone else.
I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never cared what anyone thought. Women's lib? I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.
I took advice from none but the best. I listened, how I listened! That's how I finally became my own expert.
[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.
Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day.
The rock'n'roll lifestyle really is available to anybody that's got money. Honestly. Once you get money, if you interview a hundred people with money, they'll all sound like rock stars.
Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.
As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.