Patty Duke

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

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

I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.

It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.