"I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention."

"I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice."

"But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating."

"I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace."

"In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience."

"I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person."

"The weak in courage is strong in cunning."

"If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement."