“The marriages to Mickey and Artie were easy come, easy go. I called th...” — Ava Gardner Quote

The marriages to Mickey and Artie were easy come, easy go. I called them my 'starter husbands!'

I fell down in Hyde Park with a friend who'd had a hip operation, and neither of us could get up again. People must have thought we were a couple of drunks rolling around and walked on by.

To be possessed when you are a child is just a wonderful feeling. It makes you feel safe. It makes you feel loved. But later if anyone tried to possess me - oh boy, I was out of there.

I never played a woman who was smarter than me.

It's a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.

We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?

We talk about building young men so they can be productive husbands, fathers and citizens.

I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands.

With my first two husbands, I always kinda sensed they thought there was something wrong with me. Maybe I was too flighty or whatever.