In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot.

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.

Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.

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.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.