“When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.”

“I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.”

“The way a man looks at himself in a mirror will tell you if he can ever care about anyone else.”

“I rationalize shop. I buy a dress because I need change for gum.”

“Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.”

“Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?”

“Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.”

“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”