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

I love sex. It should be animalistic, it should be sadistic, it should at times be masochistic. There are few rules and moral conventions.

Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

A lot of happiness can be brought to the mentally distraught by a little understanding.

Once you were a starlet. Then you’re a star. Can you be a starlet again?

I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for the betterment for me.

We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables.

My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.

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 guess a lot of people think that a girl who shows her bosom and wears tight dresses can’t be close to God. God has always been close to me. Only He knew what was in my heart.

Stars were made to suffer, and I am a star.

Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.

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.

We were a short lived anthology of things no one else could read.

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

You know, a balance-sheet is like a bikini, it shows more but it hides what is vital. I learnt to read a balance sheet and then I got fascinated by stocks.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.