I myself was born with an enormous need for affection and a terrible…

I myself was born with an enormous need for affection and a terrible need to give it.

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She said she was born needing lots of affection, and needing even more to give it to others.

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How sure this is: 85% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
What turned up: Interview quoted in The New York Times, "25 Years Later, Honor for Audrey Hepburn" (1991) — published in her lifetime.
Work: The New York Times, "25 Years Later, Honor for Audrey Hepburn" (1991)
Occasion: 1991 · New York · speaking about herself in a New York Times interview near the end of her life
Sources checked: en.wikiquote.orgChecked using claude-fable-5, 22 August 2026Wikiquote sourced section, read this pass; names the 1991 NYT interview (lifetime publication — passes the posthumous-compilation test). NYT primary itself is paywalled and unread; text follows Wikiquote's rendering with terminal period closed. Popular circulating form adds a comma before 'and'.