"Why do people say "grow some balls"? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding."

"Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do."

"If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble."

"I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative."

"I think older women still have a full life."

"Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not."

"I've enjoyed the opposite sex a lot. Always have. Always will."

"I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most."

"I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time."