The above quote is real and is an abbreviated version of a speech Taylor made in 2000, when she received an award for her HIV/AIDS advocacy during the 1980s and long-time support of gay rights.

On this week’s episode of Inside the Hive, author Kate Andersen Brower joins Emily Jane Fox to discuss her new authorized biography, Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon.

Picture Elizabeth Taylor and you will likely conjure an image of the quintessential diva dripping in jewels with glamour beyond measure. Accumulated through decades spent in Hollywood (and a string of ...