It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again. But I believe you’re always as good as your potential. I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. Fame will go by, and, so long, I’ve had you fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.

Sisters make the best friends in the world.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

I do sin, but I am not the devil.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

(about her teen years) My admirers all said the same thing in different ways. It was my fault, their wanting to kiss and hug me.

That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.