I am not young enough to know everything

Beatrice Nichols, 1915
Betty Bronson, 1924
Cecilia Loftus, 1906
Eva Le Galienne, 1928
Gladys Cooper, 1923
Jean Arthur, 1950
Maude Adams, 1905
Nina Boucicault, 1905
Pauline Chase, 1907
Marilyn Miller, 1924
Phyllis Calvert, 1948
Jean Forbes-Robertson, 1930
Stephanie Stephens, 1906
Zena Dare, 1906

Louise Brooks, on writing her memoirs

For two extraordinary years I have been working on it – learning to write – but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are “like” everybody – that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego.  But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough, beauty.