“My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.”

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that’s how it is.

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 am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation can afford to be satisfied.

Through discipline comes freedom.

My main fight is for freedom and equality.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.