Asks Quote by 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

“Lee tried to imagine spending that much of her life dedicated to something so inconsequential. Then she thought of what she had spent time on…

— Augustus Rose

I think Gypsy [Rose Lee] would be appalled at today's rawer, more blatant displays of the female form. She was, in her own way,…

— Karen Abbott

“It is true that the original of this story is put into new words, and the style of the famous lady we here speak…

— Daniel Defoe

“It never failed to amaze her how simply saying something, no matter how untrue, was all it took to convince a large number of…

— Terry Goodkind

“She has some very interesting ways of thinking about things. I wonder in what kind of environment she built that kind of worldview? Is…

— Minari Endou

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

“From what you know of her, you will not be surprised that she threw some exaggeration and wilfulness, some pride and impetuosity, even into…

— George Eliot

“But there was something strange about her that made me think she was "somebody." I don't mean her poise, the cool manner in which…

— Anne Rice

“I can hardly regard her in the light of a rational creature, so obstinately has she persisted in forming a fabulous notion of my…

— Emily Brontë

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

“But this first clumsy attempt showed her that the imagination itself was a source of secrets: once she had begun a story, no one…

— Ian McEwan