“Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.”

Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I’d have to give it up.

Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can’t ever take that away from you.

I wrote the story myself. It’s about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.

I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society.

I have found men who didn’t know how to kiss. I’ve always found time to teach them.

I consider sex a misdemeanor, the more I miss, de meaner I get.

I don’t like myself, I’m crazy about myself.

There are no good girls gone wrong – just bad girls found out.

Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love–that’s not so bad either.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

I’m no angel, but I’ve spread my wings a bit.

It isn’t what I do, but how I do it. It isn’t what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

Dating means two things; disillusionment or a racing heart.

Don’t let a man put anything over on you except an umbrella.

The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

If you don’t own Gold, you know neither history nor economics.

I’m a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.

First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.

I’ve discovered that most critics themselves are cinematically illiterate. They don’t really know much about movies. They don’t know the history. They don’t know the technology. They don’t know anything. So for them to try to analyze it, they’re lost.

But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences – is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.

When we hold onto our history, we do it at the expense of our destiny…. At some point you just have to let go of what you thought should have happened and live in what’s happening.