I did many interviews, and went out and talked to many people and went to rallies. It was the same thing with menopause. I traveled around the country on talk shows and talking to women about.

[on her film debut in The Last Picture Show (1971) and her romance with its director. Peter Bogdanovich] When a film wraps, the actors often like to keep some of their props or wardrobe as mementos. I wanted the heart-shaped locket and brown and white saddle shoes that Jacy wore, but his wife Polly [Polly Platt] was in charge of costumes and wouldn`t give them to me. I guess she figured I had enough of a souvenir: her husband.

It`s okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women`s health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet.

I never wanted to be Jane. I always wanted to be Tarzan. I didn`t want to vacuum the tree house. I wanted to swing from the vines.

It`s hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what`s going on. That`s why I`m doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly.

They showed this one beautiful picture of me recently and they had all the things that I had done. I thought it was a great compliment for everybody to think I`ve had plastic surgery.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren`t true.

I know you are going to be embarrassed. We`re all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment... silence has never protected women or helped them. We need to talk about it more with our, you know - whoever - our friends, our family.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren`t true.

And if doctor says that you don`t have IBS with constipation, you might want to get a second opinion, because I had doctors that were telling me... of course, a lot of this has to do with science - progressing.

You know, women have a history of just being - we`ve been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn`t say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.

[on Marilyn Monroe] She had curves in places most other women don`t even have places.

When I`m saying hysteria, I`m referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria.

I did the nasty with Elvis [Elvis Presley]. This man loved to eat. But there was one thing he wouldn`t eat . . . `til he met me.

I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life.

I was searching myself to find something that would help me with all of my symptoms. Then I went to my doctor, and she suggested that I try this.