She had maintained throughout the show's run that she was never diagnosed with either anorexia or bulimia, nor was she a user of illegal drugs.

She maintained a correspondence with the Austrian philosopher and pedagogue Wilhelm Jerusalem, who was one of the first to discover her literary talent.

She maintained contact with Spanish individualist anarchist circles.

She was a prolific letter-writer, and maintained a lifelong correspondence with her sister-in-law Elisabetta Gonzaga.

She arrived in New York City in November 1938, five days before Kristallnacht, or ' night of broken glass '; when news of the event reached the U. S., Riefenstahl maintained that Hitler was innocent.

She found herself engaged to five men, but maintained that she neither lied to or misled any of them.

She maintained an air of self-assured calm throughout all her public engagements in the years after the war, a period marked by civil unrest over social conditions, Irish independence and Indian nationalism.

She maintained a correspondence with Napoleon, informing him of increasing demands for peace in Paris and the provinces.

She also maintained a close friendship with stars like Anthony Quinn, Burt Lancaster, Sam Peckinpah, Frank Sinatra, Dolores del Río, John Wayne and many others.

She maintained her husband's innocence both before and after the prosecution.

She also maintained the boundaries between the realms of the living and the dead, regardless of their sex.

She maintained that " It was a good name, and it is a good name still, wherever Gardner found it ".

She also maintained a wide correspondence, including such famous writers as Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop.

She sternly maintained her royal pride and pretended to be sick and locked herself in her rooms when she was offended.

She also maintained detailed journals, over a period of twenty years, which remain unpublished.

She maintained a career as a singer throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and returned to music in 2004 with her Billboard charting songs " Just Wanna Dance " and " Free the World ".

She maintained that only an individual man can possess rights, and therefore the expression " individual rights " is a redundancy, while the expression " collective rights " is a contradiction in terms.

While the ratings for Murder, She Wrote had slipped slightly following its resurgence in 1991, it still maintained a loyal viewing audience.

She maintained that the struggle should be against capitalism, and not just for an independent Poland.

She was literate in French and Latin and maintained her own library.

She maintained these fictions throughout her professional life.

She moved to Hollywood with her mother and brother, and maintained a long-distance marriage with her husband in New York until he joined her in California in 1936.

She maintained a romantic relationship with photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks for many years until his death in 2006.

She maintained a very close relationship with her sister Dorothy, as well as with Mary Pickford, for her entire life.

She had maintained her name out of principle rather than taking on her husband's.

She was forty-nine at this time, a lanky woman of breeding with an austere, narrow face which had the distinction of a steeple or some architecture that had been designed long ago for a stubborn sort of prayer.

She took into account both the segmental structure ( such as sounds, syllables, phrases ) and the supra-segmental elements ( rhythm, accent, intonation ), and concluded that there was no distinction between what was practiced by the Pentecostal Protestants and the followers of other religions.

She attended the funeral of Lady Bird Johnson in Austin, Texas on July 14, 2007 and three days later accepted the highest Polish distinction, the Order of the White Eagle, on behalf of Ronald Reagan at the Reagan Library.

She also has the distinction of being the last of Henry VIII's wives to die ( she outlived Henry's last wife, Catherine Parr, by 9 years ).

She is celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from all sides without distinction and in helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium during World War I, for which she was arrested.

She has the distinction of being the World's Largest Talking Cow.

She has the distinction of contributing the most among members of Congress to other congressional campaigns because she is in a safe district and does not need the campaign funds.

She holds the distinction of being the first female Ph. D. recipient in the United States.

She compares the properties and rights of owning cows versus owning screwdrivers, enumerating how both can be utilized to serve human purposes in many ways but, when it comes to inflicting pain, there is a vital distinction between such ' properties ': a person can legally smash or grind up a screwdriver but cannot legally torture an animal.

She emphasized that failure to make the distinction has led many dead people to try to " reincarnate ", but wound up only possessing other people-to their mutual detriment.

She was married to Admiral Thomas Foley, who served with distinction under Lord Nelson.

She keeps up with and even embraces the social expectations of the wife of a patrician politician but she is still able to express herself and find distinction in the parties she throws.

She was elected CEO and President of Antilles Airboats with the added distinction of being the first woman president of a scheduled airline in the U. S. Later she sold the airline with the permission of the shareholders.

She also has the distinction of being the person that broke Brian's undefeated streak at Risque ( a parody of Risk ).

She drew a distinction between authoritarian dictators, who she believed were capable of embracing democracy and who were, not coincidentally, allies of the United States, and communist totalitarian dictators, who she viewed as unyielding and incapable of change.

It also preserved the orthographical distinction between the inconvenient homophones das (" the ", or " that ", relative pronoun ) and daß (" that ", the conjunction, as in " She said that you came "), which introduce different types of subordinate clause.

She owes her distinction, however, not to her social success, but to circumstances which remained a secret during her lifetime, even from her closest friends.

She retained her wit and charm throughout her life, and has the distinction of being the recipient of English verses by Voltaire.

She had a major role in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings based on Maya Angelou's memoir of the same name, and has the distinction of having won the first Emmy Award for the category Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie, in 1979, for her work in the television movie Summer of My German Soldier.

She was original in doing away with the time-honored distinction between choir sisters and lay sisters, but this perfect equality of rank did not prevent her from putting each sister to the work for which her capacity and education fitted her.

She was also a writer of distinction.

She was a proud member of the Durham Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, served with distinction at her home church of Mount Gilead Baptist Church and was active in the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People, Links, the National Council of Negro Women, her Bridge club and a plethora of other civic groups.

She has had the distinction of being ranked among BusinessWeeks " The Stars of Asia: 50 Leaders at the forefront of change.

She read medicine at the University of Bristol, winning honours with distinction and a gold medal.