Three days without sleep, Bill was dead on his feet; I saw my chance, and asked him to marry me. He nodded his head - he was too tired to say no. Best thing I have ever done, as well as the most courageous. Show less «

Most of my dear friends came from my mother's lovers. I had a lot of strange fathers; some of them were women, some of them were men. Show less «

On being Marlene Dietrich's daughter: "As a child I thought my name was 'Maria The-Daughter-Of'."

I think I wanted to be a teacher, or something important. My mother didn't force me into anything.