Bess myerson

I really don't like talking about diets.

Mama never told me, 'Bess, you did good.' She wanted the best for us and she was an incredible administrator. She ran those three kids, that house, the whole bit. But if I looked fine, she'd find...

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...

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

People want gimmicks. They have to lose 10 pounds by 8:30 tonight.

Not only do I have celebrity, but I have notoriety, which is sometimes more seductive.

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

Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.

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

Men go after me, and I choose among them.