A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Surrender is not an option, keep trying is the answer.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.

Somebody who should have been born is gone. Yes, woman, such logic will lead to loss without death. Or say what you meant, you coward . . . this baby that I bleed.

If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one.

Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.

And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.

A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.

I have a car that I like - an Aston Martin - for Sunday drives in the country.