On her breakup with Valentino: "With butlers, maids and the rest, what work is there for a housewife? I won`t be a parasite. I won`t sit home and twiddle my fingers, waiting for a husband who goes on the lot at five a.m. and gets home at midnight and receives mail from girls in Oshkosh and Kalamazoo."
- Natacha RambovaI read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.
- Amanda Gunter