Quotes

I have been a child, a girl, a party doll, a mistress, a wife, a mother, a professional woman, a virgin and a grandmother. I have been a woman for more than fifty years and yet I have never been able to discover precisely what it is I am, how real I am. I ask myself - perhaps my femaleness is just a human disease.

I didn't have young, handsome men for admirers. I had unhappy creatures from loony bins. Crackpots who whispered they'd pray for me, who sent me long poems about God, about reincarnation. These chosen few with the mark on their foreheads have always been drawn to me and I to them.

[on Peter Finch] An Australian outlaw character, wild and unruly, who despised himself for having become an actor.