I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!
In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.
If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.
[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.
No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.