“It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”

“In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.”

“I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.”

“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.”

“The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.”

“I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me, tugging at me, as if they wanted a piece of me. It was always, 'do this, do that,' and not just on the job but off, too. God, I've tried to stay intact, whole.”

“Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.”