Cher The Memoir Quotes

Whenever he got mad like that, it just made me shut down, even though he’d never laid a hand on me. I never understood why I didn’t talk back or fight with him, but I just knew I couldn’t win. You learn after a long enough period of time that it’s not worth it.

We also had Charlie’s Angels actress Farrah Fawcett, who became a friend. Years later, when Farrah was sick, she would ask if she could spend her last days in my home because she wanted to see the ocean. Ryan denied her, saying, “If she wants to see the ocean, she could stay at my house.

Having declared that men are “things you love against your will,” my mother was becoming a serial monogamist.

I didn’t believe Phillip would have used that gun on me and was sure he was playing with it for show, but I was still pissed off. “Hell, it probably wasn’t even loaded,” I told Pauli on the way home, but there was something about him that night that troubled me.

Sonny and Jerry argued so much that Jerry ended up in the hospital and I ended up lying in the cemetery across the street where I’d talk to the dead guys.

You have to know your limitations and then either rise above them or make peace with the fact that you’re never going to.

Kid, I won’t lie to you. We’d have dumped your body in the river, or we could have all gone to jail.” If that had happened, I’d have been adopted or remained with the nuns forever. Shocking as Dave’s answer now sounds, prosecutions of those who carried out abortions were commonplace. Police kicking down the doors of clinics and private homes was as everyday as their raids on brothels and gambling dens. Those who were caught helping women faced prison sentences (once again, not unlike now) of an average of three to five years and lost their license to practice if they had medical qualifications. The women were generally regarded as victims and coerced into testifying, but the stigma of the trial could ruin them, so the risks were enormous for everyone.