I love rain. It’s lucky, I always think.
KATHARINE HEPBURNTrying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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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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Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.
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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then ‘act as if’ you know how to do the rest.
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I would have been a terrible mother because I’m basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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I don’t care WHAT the say about me, as long as it’s not the truth.
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I’m a legend because I’ve survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate – I’m still paddling the goddamned boat myself.
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Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
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Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.
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I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, ‘Try one. Try a skirt.’
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