"You can be a lady and do your own work."

"To be human, one must be able to laugh. To be human, one must be able to weep."

"I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."

"Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore."

"All my life I have been fighting to be a woman. I have been fighting to be an individual. I have been fighting to be myself."