"If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race."

"An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine."

"Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the title and asked, 'What the heck do you mean by that?' This is what I mean. None of us can raise a family, build a business, heal a community or lift a country totally alone."

"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"Civilization is human rights, it is the path of setting man free from men, phobia, to survive it, we must cultivate the science of human relationships."