You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.

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

My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

I'm not afraid to die. I'm looking forward to it. I know the Lord has His arms wrapped around this big sparrow.

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

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.