The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered.

I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.

I was trying to find out who my father was. They say that at that time, that if you are illegitimate, the father doesn't have to put his name down on the certificate.

I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

I love to tease men with my legs.

A cat is a cat. She has no race creed or collar.

The children of America are not rebelling for no reason. They are not hippies for no reason at all. We don’t have what we have on Sunset Blvd. for no reason. They are rebelling against something. There are so many things burning the people of this country, particularly mothers. They feel they are going to raise sons—and I know what it's like, and you have children of your own, Mrs. Johnson—we raise children and send them to war.