I could always open shows, perform through the middle, and close shows.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I am somebody cause God don't make no junk