"I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife."

"I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in…"

"We were Midwesterners born in the Bible Belt of Anglo-Saxon farmers, who prayed in the parlor and practised incest in…"

"The rest of the girls wore smiles as fixed as their towering feather headdresses. I decided right then that onstage I…"

"Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much …"

"I was simply playing myself, which is the hardest thing in the world to do – if you know that it’s hard. I didn’t, so…"

"A well-dressed woman, even if her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world."

"I was navigating, but not seeing."

"I remember when we were filming last year, someone was like, 'Are you guys ready for your lives to change?' And we we…"

"She's bolder than I am, and she's more of a risk taker, and that was something I thought would be a challenge. But I …"