"Each found her greatest safety in silence."

"With women, the heart argues, not the mind."

"Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves."

"How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!"

"And I think that's what life is all about, actually, about children and flowers."

"I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing."