Century Quote by Karen Abbott

Her sister [June Havoc] said the musical portrayed who Gypsy [Rose Lee] wanted to be before the burlesque thing happened she wanted to be…

— Karen Abbott

I greatly admired Gypsy [Rose Lee] for being able to rise above her circumstances; I was terrified of her; I thought she was generous;…

— Karen Abbott

Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were also her…

— Karen Abbott

She [Gypsy Rose Lee] was a sophisticated self-satirist with a contagious delight in the comedy of sex. She was coy; she was sly; she…

— Karen Abbott

One of the biggest questions to me was whether or not Gypsy the person was capable of loving anyone or anything beyond Gypsy Rose…

— Karen Abbott

“Kiss her gypsy soul and love her for the wild rose she is.”

— Melody Lee

When Gypsy was older, after she became Gypsy Rose Lee, I think she was both proud and slightly ashamed of her Seattle roots. She…

— Karen Abbott

“A fit queen for that nest of roses was the human flower that adorned it, for a year of love and luxury had ripened…

— Louisa May Alcott

“I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Sensuality, as long as it is straightforward did not repel him, but this derived sensuality - the sort that classes a mistress among motor-cars…

— E.M. Forster

“Galbraith, tellingly, drew a line between ‘simple modes of enjoyment’ (he included here sport, food and houses as well as cars and sex) and…

— Frank Trentmann

What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be…

— Alice Hoffman