“We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life.”

“I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.”

“Is forever longer than always?”

“I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.”

“It's when you treat people like freaks that you become one yourself.”

“Haply a woman's voice may do some goodWhen articles too nicely urged be stood on.”

“A woman impudent and mannish grownIs not more loath'd than an effeminate man.”

“Ah me, how weak a thingThe heart of woman is!”