People shouldn't look at me and think life is one big piece of glamour. That's the marketing, the spin. Life is challenging. But I have courage, strength, and enough good health to see the positive.

We're all works of art in progress.

I didn't marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too - my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me.

I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.

My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker.

As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn't a cover-girl type.

I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.

There’s always a boyfriend... Whatever else I have to give up on, I won’t give up on love.

My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson?

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

The strength is given to me by the recognition I don't waste it in vain.

Hate is hostility.

Regret is more than inevitable, it's a constant companion. A relationship that becomes comfortable. Regret never wants to break up.

The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.

I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

Even when I was just designing T-shirts people really gravitated to them.

Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.