The World Motivation
We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.
“We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.”
— Ethel Waters · Bathtub
We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.
In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.
I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.
Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.
My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
My friends are very rich. Elizabeth Taylor sends flowers the size of the bathtub. I'm not kidding.
I've always wanted to play a coach in a movie, just to be the captain of anything in the pirate ship of my bathtub.
Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.
I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.
That would really be my fantasy - maybe just do three shows a year and each year in a different city, just singing for the people who really want to see it, and then just write for other people. I do love to sing, but I'm just as happy singing in the bathtub, you know?