“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

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they’re not at all the same. But they’re both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present moment must be enjoyed, comparable to a state of grace.

The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

It’s natural that anyone is compared to their father.