“Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.”

“Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.”

“A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.”

“The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.”

“Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.”

“They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.”

“They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.”

“The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.”

“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'”

“Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.”

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”