“I would love to employ a man, but how can I possibly give a man dictation from the bath?”

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

A woman asking ‘Am I good? Am I satisfied?’ is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.

People don’t roll around naked in my books. I do allow them to go to bed if they’re married, but it’s all very wonderful and the moon beams.

I have always found women difficult. I don’t really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don’t pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that “nice girls don’t.” He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue-but only in a certain section of society.

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

I’ll keep going till my face falls off.

Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

You become what you think. You are what you eat.

I always wear boot polish on my eyelashes, because I am a very emotional person and it doesn’t run when I cry.

We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.

When I was young, I would sit in the bath and ideas would come to me. But I’m not young any more, so now I just sit in the bath.

I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.

It’s a lot easier to get in and out of a bath. Hot tubs are bad news for actors, man.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.

Of course motivation is not permanent. But then neither is bathing, but it is something you should do on a regular basis.