"Whenever you're depressed, just change your hair color," my mother always told me, years later, when I was a teenager: I was never denied a bottle of hair bleach or dye. In my closet there weren't many clothes, but there were tons of bottles."

(Cookie Mueller, vero nome Dorothy Karen Mueller, attrice e scrittrice; Baltimora, 2 marzo 1949 – New York, 10 novembre 1989)