Known for her bawdy double entendres, West made a name for herself in Vaudeville and on the stage in New York before moving to Hollywood to become a comedienne, actress and writer in the motion picture industry. One of the more controversial movie stars of her day, West encountered many problems including censorship.

1. A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

2. A man in the house is worth two in the street.

3. Don’t keep a man guessing too long - he’s sure to find the answer somewhere else.

4. Don’t marry a man to reform him - that’s what reform schools are for.

5. Give a man a free hand and he’ll run it all over you.

6. I like a man who’s good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

7. I speak two languages, Body and English.

8. I’m a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

9. It isn’t what I do, but how I do it. It isn’t what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

10. When women go wrong, men go right after them.

11. Good sex is like good bridge. If you don’t have a good partner, you’d better have a good hand.

12. The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

13. A man’s kiss is his signature.

1. As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

2. Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

3. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

4. In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one’s life.

5. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

6. Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

7. We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

By the 1970s she was internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocate for the poor and helpless, due in part to a documentary, and book, Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and India’s highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980 for her humanitarian work. Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity continued to expand, and at the time of her death it was operating 610 missions in 123 countries, including hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children’s and family counselling programs, orphanages, and schools.

She has been praised by many individuals, governments and organizations; however, she has also faced a diverse range of criticism. These include objections by various individuals and groups, including Christopher Hitchens, Michael Parenti, Aroup Chatterjee, Vishva Hindu Parishad, against the proselytizing focus of her work including a strong stance against abortion, a belief in the spiritual goodness of poverty and alleged baptisms of the dying. Several medical journals also criticised the standard of medical care in her hospices and concerns were raised about the opaque nature in which donated money was spent.

Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.

1. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

2. Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

3. Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

4. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

5. If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

6. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

7. Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

8. Peace begins with a smile.

9. The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

1. Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

2. Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

3. I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.

4. If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

5. In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

6. It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

7. The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

8. We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.