“[If] you’ve got talent, you don’t have to rub it in my face by taking your clothes off. Now, of course, I tease, too, because everybody says I’ve got beautiful legs. I tease my men with that, and I think it’s fun, but I wouldn’t go any further than that, like ripping off my clothes or showing much more than the audience would feel comfortable with. Now I’m not dealing with the right or wrong of it, but I don’t think it’s necessary.You know, you don’t have to be flaunting in order to be haunting.”

- Eartha Kitt, via Just an Old-Fashioned Cat, The Austin Chronicle,