“Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a female can enjoy. A father shares in that experience, knowing that he caused it to happen.”

I hope that I have given happiness to others. I hope I have given children to the world, and that I have made some kind of a mark for myself here.

I like being a pin-up girl. There’s nothing wrong with it.

I don’t want to get involved in the racial situation at the expense of losing fans. I wouldn’t say anything too strong but I do know that God created us equal and we’re not living up to it.

I don’t know why you people [the press] like to compare me to Marilyn or that girl, what’s her name, Kim Novak. Cleavage, of course, helped me a lot to get where I am. I don’t know how they got there.

It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted.

No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don’t consider myself a dull subject.

Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce … some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.

Most girls don’t know what to do with what they’ve got.

A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

We take our children everywhere we go. I don’t believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up

If you want the best things in life you have to earn them for yourself.

We live to love you more each day.

You gotta have a body.

A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee – a lot more.

My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.

My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.

I read one psychologist’s theory that said, “Never strike a child in your anger.” When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he’s recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?

Children make your life important.

My mother could make anybody feel guilty – she used to get letters of apology from people she didn’t even know.

I am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

Never underestimate the power that comes when a parent pleads with God on behalf of a child.

Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.