Gypsy Rose Lee Quotes

It's not what you do. It's the way you do it-stripping, or writing, or talking . . . or just breathing. Do it with an air, and never admit you're scared.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly ... very slowly.

Men aren’t attracted to me by my mind. They’re attracted by what I don’t mind.

Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.

I've got everything I had 20 years ago, except now it's all lower.

God will protect us, but to make sure, carry a heavy club

She's descended from a long line her mother listened to.

God is love, but get it in writing.

The dog is dressed just like me at the climax of my act.

I'm probably the highest paid outdoor entertainer since Cleopatra.

I have everything I had twenty years ago only it's all a little bit lower.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly.

Her mother was by turns tender and pathetic and terrifying, broken in a way that no one, in that time or place, had any idea how to fix.

Mother was, ' June thought, 'a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.' Her broken edges cut her daughters in ways both emotional and physical, and only sharpened with age.

He was just a taker. She was a taker in her way too. They were taking each other, and they loved each other for that. -June Havoc

And truth is malleable, something to be bent or stretched or made to disappear, but direct lies always find the path back to the one who tells them.