Patty Duke

I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.

I was a truly loving mom, but I didn't have the tools to do the job.

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.