I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.

I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.

My aunt, or whoever it was, who brought me from the South, would have killed me, because she didn't like anything like that. The only thing she liked was a concert pianist. Which is marvelous; I wish I'd studied piano.