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Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.
Critics established a snobbery toward me.
We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.
Widowhood had done nothing to curb my smart mouth. So much for diplomacy.
My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.
With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all.
Once I married Fernando, I became invisible.
Which Esther Williams do you want to hear about?
I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.
I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.
Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.
Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.
Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.
Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.
By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.
Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.
The animus is symbolized by male figures appearing in a womans dreams and fantasies, as a husband, son, father, lover, Prince Charming.
No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.
I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know
There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it
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