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Once I married Fernando, I became invisible.


I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.


My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.


Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.


I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.


I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.


I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.


Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.


Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.


Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.


Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.


We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.


Which Esther Williams do you want to hear about?


Widowhood had done nothing to curb my smart mouth. So much for diplomacy.


With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all.


Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.


I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.


I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.


I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.


It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious.