Anna Held

I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.

Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.

No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.

We must go fast, because the race is against time.

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.

A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.

I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.