Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.

A great many of us have confused change with progress.

There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.

The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.

Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

Death is a door life opens.

I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

The motion picture is the people's Art.

Woman's work as a listener is never done. ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband.