The only reason a man doesn't call is that he doesn't want to.

I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and anxiety.

My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I was - my sister in a wheel chair, my father gone, and my mother a quiet little mouse. You see, it was the '30s in the South, so my mother was not prepared to cope. So I was scared to death. And being that scared, everything afterward became a struggle not to go down the drain. Struggling became a way of life for me.

A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. She’s a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.

I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that in her.