"Though I've been a professional actress since I was seven or eight, acting was never a dream of mine."
Chap. 1, p. 5

"'Okay, we've finally decided, we're gonna change your name. Anna Marie is dead. You're Patty now.' Just like that."
Chap. 4, p. 23

"When I first started acting, my main motivation was fear, a feeling that if I didn't do what I was supposed to do, something horrible was going to happen."
Chap. 7, p. 49

"Easily the most memorable visit to result from The Miracle Worker took place outside of the theater, and that was my meeting with Helen Keller in the spring of 1960."
Chap. 10, p. 83

"After the Rosses took control of my life, they told me in so many words that my father just didn't exist."
Chap. 11, p. 90

"But the trauma was the same; I was about as molested as I ever want a little girl to get...