I really don’t like talking about diets.

All the praise I received couldn’t substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life – but there didn’t seem to be any, at least not for me.

You’ve got to love people, places, ideas; you’ve got to live with mind, body, soul; you’ve got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.

Everybody asks me, ‘So, what are you doing now?’ Why must I be doing something? All my life I’ve been doing something. All my life I’ve been doing. For now, I’m being – being quiet, being grateful.

I don’t look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.

I’m not conniving – that has a pejorative context. I’m not sitting in back rooms making deals. That’s not my style.

I never like other people to clean for me. I don’t want them to invade my own privacy.

I’ve lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

I’m like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

I really don't like talking about diets.