Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable.

There is no pure free-market economy.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.

If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don’t change because of it. It’s just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar!

Each of us makes his own weather determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

To bring about a fundamental, radical revolution, we must begin with ourselves.

Thank you for letting idiots like me, come out and live this wonderful wonderful dream. I love you to death. Lets go home.

Why did I want to break all the rules? Because the rules didn’t make sense, that’s why

As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.

Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board at once, and said, "Here! Have them all!