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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

She once said, 'I'm really a little prudish, which people may think incongruous'. I take a prudish point of view on certain films, books,…

— Karen Abbott

Gypsy [Rose Lee] wasn't a linear person, and she didn't live life in a linear fashion. She was relentlessly self-inventing, and moved backward as…

— Karen Abbott

I thought both she [Gypsy Rose Lee] and her story would be ill-served by a conventional, birth-to-death narrative, and so I structured the book…

— Karen Abbott

It was a great challenge to reconstruct Gypsy Rose Lee life, and my interviews with her sister [June Havoc] proved invaluable. It's not often…

— Karen Abbott

There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality.

— Roger Vadim

“She was wearing a black dress without decoration, thick-soled black boots and vast amounts of silver jewellery on her arms. Her red hair was…

— Graeme Simsion

Gypsy [Rose Lee] is as unique as she is timeless. Her story is classic Americana, and the strangest rags-to-riches saga you'll ever read; I…

— Karen Abbott

I would never describe Charlotte as a prude - maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't…

— Kristin Davis

Gypsy [Rose Lee], who was called Louise as a kid, gave her first performances here with her sister [June Hovac], playing for the local…

— Karen Abbott

“What in the world do our clothes say about us when we put them on?" Rose said. "There's no real dignity in any of…

— Heather O'Neill

“There was no one to tell Scarlett that her own personality, frighteningly vital though it was, was more attractive than any masquerade she might…

— Margaret Mitchell