“All girls are beautiful in their own way.”

When you try to change you, try to fit yourself to other people’s standards.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

I don’t stop when I’m tired. I only stop when I’m done.

I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

If you’re gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

Love is rare, love is strange, nothing lasts and people change.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Your clothes should be tight enough to show you’re a woman but loose enough to show you’re a lady

A girl doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her

One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.

When you start falling for somebody and you can’t stop thinking about when you’re going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.

She’s a beautiful wildness on fire.

She has a choice. She can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle…she fails in the end but there’s something beautiful and even heroic in her rebellion.

If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.

Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.

The audience’s reactions are more important: if people believe in the love story, it’s because they love how we’ve acted. That’s the most beautiful award. It’s very important for me, people appreciating what I do.

O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.