"Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother."

"Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about."

"Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age."

"I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky."

"Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree."

"Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow."

"A visionary sees the unseen possibilities in the heart of common struggles. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love."