When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.

All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.

My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.

I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.