I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.

I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.