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.

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.

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

I am somebody cause God don't make no junk

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 want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

I had a probing mind and an elephant memory.