From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get, simply to arm ourselves.

I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.

I was just sort of moving through time.

I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning