Anna Held

How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy. ”

My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not. ”

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. ”