Miss U.S.A. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19560719&id=cLpOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uwAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5210,5829290 (July 19, 1956)
(Spoken at the beginning of the Virgin Tour concert video).
“I didn’t know what to think and she didn’t either, but I was glad she came up to me.”
The Paris Review interview (1994)
Context: I was performing The Sea Lion in the Newport Performing Arts Center. Afterwards a white-haired old woman approached me and said, Hey, you remember me? I looked her over, and I knew I remembered her, but had no idea who she was. She said, Lois. It still didn’t click. She said, Lois Learned, Big Nurse, and I thought, Oh my God. She was a volunteer at Newport, long since retired from the nursing business. This was the nurse on the ward I worked on at the Menlo Park hospital. I didn’t know what to think and she didn’t either, but I was glad she came up to me. I felt there was a lesson in it, the same one I had tried to teach Hollywood. She’s not the villain. She might be the minion of the villain, but she’s really just a big old tough ex-army nurse who is trying to do the best she can according to the rules that she has been given. She worked for the villain and believed in the villain, but she ain’t the villain.
“I want to win, I want to win everything. If I have a chance to win, why not?”
Paul Hunter (June 12, 2008) "Ovechkin fashions himself a designer", The Toronto Star, p. S02.
The Hour of Babel (p. 62)
Short fiction, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (2011)
“I didn’t think that I was powerless…But I didn’t think that I was powerful.”
On the pay disparities that she experienced in “It’s Good to be Regina King” https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/02/regina-king-cover in Vanity Fair (Feb 2019)
