“I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was …” — Ethel Waters

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

I am an isolationist.

I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own.

I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.