Polly Adler

Polly Adler
Pearl "Polly" Adlerwas an American madam, author, and person of Russian-Jewish origin...
real father doctors
What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.
college degree great
It's not the college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.
event help kick life people
I am one of those people who just can't help getting a kick out of life -- event when it's a kick in the teeth.
reputation
I couldn't live my reputation down - all right then, I'd live up to it.
writing college stories
It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.
home towns
My home is in whatever town I'm booked.
girl money men
The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.
people teeth kick-ass
I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.
home house
A house is not a home.
girl jobs husband
The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid -- these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.
heart mind doe
Your heart often knows things before your mind does.