"She was the only woman he was afraid he would beg for."

“Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. September 17, 2003.

“If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock, she tilts five thousand feet of strata on end; our skies are higher and more intensely blue; our waves larger than others; our rivers fiercer. There is nothing measured, small nor petty in South Africa.”

“Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis.”

“I strongly believe that antisemitism and Jewish chauvinism can only be fought simultaneously.”

Source : Israel Shahak (1994). “Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years”, p.12, Pluto Press

“Why am I an atheist? I ask you: Why is anybody not an atheist? Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated. I resent anyone pushing their religion on me. I don't push my atheism on anybody else. Live and let live. Not many people practice that when it comes to religion.”

“I've always been into sports and being physical.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness ...”

Source : Margaret Deland (2015). “The Iron Woman”, p.64, The Floating Press

“My God, I'm four hundred years old and the most I can do is look three hundred.”

Source : Roy Newquist, Joan Crawford (1980). “Conversations with Joan Crawford”