Jacqueline Susann > Quotes

“I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“Love shouldn't make a beggar of one. I wouldn't want love if I had to beg for it, to barter or qualify it. And I should despise it if anyone ever begged for my love. Love is something that must be given -- it can't be bought with words or pity, or even reason.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“People parted, years passed, they met again- and the meeting proved no reunion, offered no warm memories, only the acid knowledge that time had passed and things weren't as bright or attractive as they had been.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“No one should give up a dream without giving it a chance to come true.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“Money bought freedom; without it one could never be free.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“Alone on the summit of Mount Everest.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“...when you’re young you think you’ll always be young. Then one day you suddenly wake up and you’re over fifty. And the names in the obituary columns are no longer anonymous old people. They’re your contemporaries and friends.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“each time it would hurt less, and afterward she would love Lyon less, until one day there would be nothing left — no hurt, and no love. She”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“Close friendships with girls come early in life. After thirty it becomes harder to make new friends — there are fewer hopes, dreams or anticipations to share.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“She was climbing Mount Everest and the air was invigorating and wonderful. Even if every second verged on crisis, this was part of living - not just watching from the sidelines.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.”
― Jacqueline Susann

“Everyone should at least try to do the thing he wants to do. Later in life situations and responsibilities force people to compromise. But to compromise now...it's like quitting before you start.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“Before I came to New York I lived here, in this mausoleum. I was nothing. I was dead. When I came to New York it was like a veil lifting. For the first time I felt I was alive, breathing.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists. ”
― Jacqueline Susann

“There’s one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count . . . You realize that time is the most precious thing. Because time is life. It’s the only thing you can never get back.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“Neely O'Hara: [drunk in a bar] Who's stoned? I am merely traveling incognito.”
― Jacqueline Susann

“Remember, the most important thing in the world is to have a man who loves you.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“Did money give people a blind spot? Rob them of their hearing?”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“Helen Lawson: They drummed you out of Hollywood, so you come crawling back to Broadway. But Broadway doesn't go for booze and dope. Now get out of my way, I've got a man waiting for me.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“guess a woman can either love or be loved, but it’s almost impossible to have both.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“And suddenly you recall all the senseless time-wasting things you’ve done . . . the wasted minutes you’ll never recover. And you realize that time is the most precious thing. Because time is life. It’s the only thing you can never get”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“Love is something that must be given — it can’t be bought with words or pity, or even reason.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“giving a party was not as simple as going to one. You could always leave someone else’s party. You were stuck with your own.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“Helen Lawson: The only hit that comes out of a Helen Lawson show is Helen Lawson, and that's ME, baby, remember?”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls