A biography for Mae Westhasn’t been written yet.
“Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.”
“It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.”
“Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.”
“All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.”
“Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”
“It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.”
“He who hesitates is a damned fool.”
“He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.”
“Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.”
“I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.”
“Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”
“When women go wrong, men go right after them.”
“A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.”
“A hard man is good to find.”
“Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.”
“I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.”
“I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.”
“Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.”
“כשאני טובה, אני טובה מאוד, אבל כשאני רעה, אני טובה יותר". ~ מתוך הסרט "אינני מלאך”
“אהבה זה כשהוא מאחר לחזור הביתה, להתלבט אם זה בגלל שהוא בוגד בך עכשיו, או שהוא עבר תאונת דרכים, ולקוות שהתשובה השנייה היא הנכונה.”