“Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly b...”

“I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.”

“When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang. We had to put a dance to a song, so I went to the 10-cent store one day and looked at all the sheet music. It was all laid out, ...”

“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.”

“I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.”

“If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.”

“Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.”

“Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it al...”

“The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.”

“Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.”

“The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.”

“The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.”

“But love's a malady without a cure.”

“One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.”

“My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.”