There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.

The Constitution did not even go into effect when Washington was inaugurated first President. The wisest men knew that it was only a figment of the imagination then.