There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

Even though we know the origin of diseases, panic sweeps. It's one thing that frightens us, because it's your health and your body - it's more like a tangible threat; it's not like a foreign enemy you can fight. That was really what was uppermost to many of us whilst making 'Black Death.'

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

I looked Death right in the face.

The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial.