The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

"When you are a mother you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child"

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent but with great inner drive, go much farther than people with vastly superior talent."