Marlene Dietrich

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.

In America, sex is an obsession; in other parts of the world it's a fact.

Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him.

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.