"Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me."

"Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about."

"Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement."

"Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries."

"I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table."

"They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'"

"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum."

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours."