There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

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.

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.

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

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

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.