“Do you have to have a reason for loving?”

I leave before being left. I decide.

If people don’t like me, I become very plain.

I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I’ve always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

Film-making was not at all what I had expected.

People are forever finding something wrong with you.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can’t take a step without being questioned and surrounded.

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can’t, I’ll stick to animals.

Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can’t do without them.

I wanted to be myself. Only myself.

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.

Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?

Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

Compete with your destiny, not theirs.

My mother told me; son, love her so much she understands how beautiful she is- with or without you.

If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.

I cannot love thee; thou ‘rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God’s pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!