I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb

I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's considerable rewards, I was hungry for most of those twenty years.

As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.

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