“I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.”

“life is to be lived.if you have to support yourself,you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.And you don't do that by sitting around.”

“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”

“Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.”

“Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.”

“He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.”

“I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.”