I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society.
[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.
I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way.
The best way to behave is to misbehave.
It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way.
It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.
Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.