Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

You cannot marry your past without divorcing your future.

Shh, mi amor. The neighbors will hear and call the police.

Gratitude weighs heavy on us only when we no longer feel it.

It's 45 minutes after the game right now and I still don't want to take this jersey off. That's because I know that when I do it'll be for the last time.

Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.

Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli OHara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.

So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.

The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one.

The lessons I learned that were most important were the ones that hurt my feelings.

I want to stretch myself. Another reason why I'm so fortunate is that this is a drama and I've been brought up in comedy.