Top 40 Quotes by 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 never was a child.

I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.

I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.

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

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.

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

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.