I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker

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

I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me.

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 admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.

I lose all control after two drinks of anything