"Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore."

"Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me."

"Gods always behave like the people who created them."

"The very first principle of life is this: Never let anybody get your goat."

"I want to be myself, and I want to be a woman, and I want to be an American. And I want to be all of these things without apology."