"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."

"Dat's what makes a man and a woman. You can't have one without the other."

"There is nothing in the world that can take the place of persistence."

"It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

"Some people could look at a knot in a tree, and tell you the history of the world."