Quotes by Joan O'Sullivan

The madam would contribute her favorite recipes to Cosmopolitan magazine. And she would eventually achieve complete respectability by either posing for a Playboy centerfold or being elected to Congress.

Today, the Harvard-educated proprietor of a boutique brothel on the East Side would be photographed attending first nights and would discuss her next book on television chat shows with respectful psychoanalysts who would treat her, not without justification, as a professional colleague.