Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.
It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .
The joy of a party is the newness of people to each other, renewed strikingness of humanity. They love each other, to distraction. Really to distraction. Before they fall into conversation and separate. . . . The strangeness, and the hopes aroused by strangeness, are illusions. Mirages arising wherever people gather expectantly together.
the Church will go on being a Royal Academy of Males.
You think Christianity is favorable to women? On the contrary. It is the Christian countries that have produced the prostitute and the most vile estimations of women in the world.
If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.
Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.
I would love to play Nefertiti or Cleopatra or the Queen of Sheba. We preserve more male history than we do female. We have to preserve [female history]. No more complaining. We have to do it.
My career is an open book, but my life is not
I'd rather go to the White House Correspondents' dinner than any awards show.
What we do to animals, we do to ourselves.