I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford.

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.

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.

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

I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.

What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.