Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it.

I am responsible for no one but myself.

My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.

Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that there was no such animal as 'social drinking' for me; that it had nothing to do with my willpower or self-respect or moral fiber, that it was a simple biochemical intolerance to a drug.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.