“I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.”

"How Mary Pickford Stays Young", Reader's Digest, Vol. 5 (1926); condensed from an interview in Everybody's Magazine (28 May 1926)

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