Ethel Waters Men Quotations

I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.

My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.

What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.

We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.