“Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.”

“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”

“Men are irrelevant.”

“No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.”

“Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.”

“Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.”

“People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.”

“The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.”

“The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.”

“There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.”

“We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.”

“Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.”