I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.Collection: Trust
As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.Collection: Dad
If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.
I have always been free with my love - it is my nature. I am easily captivated by men and they have always been attracted to me.
My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.
I'm terrified of men these days. If someone asked me out now, I don't know what I'd say, how I'd react. But I couldn't go through with it, not at all. I suppose I've been terrified of them all along.
I won't say I didn't like it at the time, the sex, that is, because I wouldn't have let him do it at all if that had been the case.
I went out every single night so I was never alone with my stepfather. At 12, I stopped going on holiday with them. The times I was alone with him I always made sure I was all covered up.
He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake.
Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.
I like to think that people live on in other people's memories.Collection: Death
All that Swinging Sixties. It didn’t do anyone any good, did it? Easy sex and the Pill. Marriages were ruined. I never did approve. I never really enjoyed the sex.Collection: Sex