“I’m tired of being thought of as Miss Goody Two-Shoes, the girl next door, Miss Happy-Go-Lucky. You doubtless know the remark dear Oscar Levant once made about me—‘I knew her before she was a virgin.’ Well, I’m not the All-American Virgin Queen and I’d like to deal with the true, honest story of who I really am. This image I’ve got—oh, how I dislike that word ‘image’—it’s not me, not at all who I am.” -Doris Day (photo by Jimmy Mitchell, circa 1963)

“I’m tired of being thought of as Miss Goody Two-Shoes, the girl next door, Miss Happy-Go-Lucky. You doubtless know the remark dear Oscar Levant once made about me—‘I knew her before she was a virgin.’

Well, I’m not the All-American Virgin Queen and I’d like to deal with the true, honest story of who I really am. This image I’ve got—oh, how I dislike that word ‘image’—it’s not me, not at all who I am.”

-Doris Day (photo by Jimmy Mitchell, circa 1963)