I've been in more laps than a napkin.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.

all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on.

Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)

I believe that one day the world will judge the witch hunt against homosexuals just as harshly as it judges the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust.

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.