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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.

Katharine Hepburn

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Connection Expectation Generosity Love Yourself
It’s how you live that really counts.
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Count Live Yourself
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
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Attitude Behavior Change Yourself
Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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Artist People Silence Voice Yourself
I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
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Born Luck Myself
Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That’s what I’ve done.
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Children Decision Myself Woman
I’ve always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It’s inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?
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Each Other Man Myself Togetherness Woman
Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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Children Pretend Sell Time Yourself
Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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Beautiful Knowledge Man Woman
What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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Library Ourselves World
If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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Build Enough Old Survive Yourself
I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to, and I’ve made enough money to support myself, and ain’t afraid of being alone
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Afraid Enough Live Man Money Myself Support Woman
I don’t think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
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Destroy Hell Myself Thinking Work
The woman’s position in the world today is so much harder than a man’s that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.
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Complain Man Myself Position Time Woman World
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Expectation Generosity Love Yourself
Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I’ve had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Attitude Forget Laughter Life Share Time Tragedy Wild Yourself

It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.

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