When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My own mother was my darling.

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title

It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.