Men go after me, and I choose among them.

All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.

I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.

Everybody asks me, 'So, what are you doing now?' Why must I be doing something? All my life I've been doing something. All my life I've been doing. For now, I'm being -- being quiet, being grateful.

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.