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Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

A great man is one sentence.

all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.

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

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.'

Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.

But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

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

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

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Enemies may seek our destruction, but they also keep us on our toes and often help us figure out who we are and what we stand for.

Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.

Guns know no policy except destruction.

H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.

Home is where you hang your architect.

I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.

I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.

If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.

If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.

If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.

If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.

I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, "Let's use the missiles." They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.

I know all about violence and physical abuse because my first husband used to beat me severely when he got drunk. Once, I can remember coming home from a party and walking up our vast marble staircase at the Fifth Avenue house while he was striking me. I thought, If I just gave him one shove down the staircase I would be rid of him forever.

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.

I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.

Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty years this giant brain spends analyzing women. And he still can't find out what they want. So this makes him the world's greatest expert on female psychology?

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.

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

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

No matter how their leaders may have tried to skimp on money, no one, not even the politicians, who talked themselves red, white, and blue in the face, skimped on effort.

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.

[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble; crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.

[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.

Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.

Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school.

Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.

Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline.

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

The best defense against a powerful and positive dynamic ideology is neither verbal attack nor criticism, which are useful, but to set up an equally powerful and dynamic ideology against it.