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“All my life I have had my best experiences when I have responded to material with my heart before my mind.”
― Suzanne Finstad, Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood

“His endearing traits, in many instances, were the mirror images of the characteristics that made him so difficult to bear at times. His need to control, for example, manifested itself positively in his tenderly protective and nurturing side; the exaggerated self-gratification brought on by his stardom and power was equaled, and possibly surpassed, by his legendary generosity; his double standard reflected the southern tendency to place a woman on a pedestal as a creature to be revered, almost worshiped; his egocentricity, when reversed, gave Elvis an almost supernatural ability to empathize. Elvis Presley was a man of many paradoxes—alternately megalomaniacal and humble, oversexed yet strangely prudish.”
― Suzanne Finstad, Child Bride: The Untold Story of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley

“She would just tell us what she wanted,” recalled Elvis’s cook, Mary Jenkins. “One time she said, ‘I want a different cake every day of the week, but don’t tell Mama—she’ll put me on a diet.”
― Suzanne Finstad, Child Bride: The Untold Story of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley

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― Suzanne Finstad, Child Bride: The Untold Story of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley