I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

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

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've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

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