More from Katharine Hepburn
You can’t change the music of your soul.
Katharine HepburnKatharine Hepburn Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
Katharine HepburnKatharine Hepburn 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.
Katharine HepburnKatharine Hepburn 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.
Katharine HepburnKatharine Hepburn Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
Katharine HepburnKatharine Hepburn I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.
Katharine HepburnKatharine Hepburn If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
Katharine HepburnKatharine Hepburn Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That’s what I’ve done.
Katharine HepburnKatharine Hepburn Enemies are so stimulating.
Katharine HepburnKatharine Hepburn Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine HepburnKatharine Hepburn Our Constitution was not intended to be used by … any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
Katharine HepburnKatharine Hepburn The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
Katharine HepburnKatharine Hepburn I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
Katharine HepburnKatharine Hepburn Love fattens on smooth words.
Katharine HepburnKatharine Hepburn You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
Katharine HepburnKatharine 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 HepburnKatharine Hepburn
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From our community writers
And that is how time heals, not by erasing but by blurring all the memories.
VesmirVesmir Let me follow my dream. Let me follow my queen.
Moses AlexanderMoses Alexander Be kind to yourself, the way you would be to someone you love.
Courtney PeppernellCourtney Peppernell We need to surrender ourselves to the water before we can climb the spiral ladder.
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn You gave me the courage to rise but my darling robin why did you fly leaving me behind these four walls all alone?
Ophelia ScarlettOphelia Scarlett Giving up your dreams is easy, but ask yourself is it really easy to live without dreams?
Sania AbbasSania Abbas It’s funny how we say a person ‘made’ us when they actually broke us. Sort of like how I say ‘funny’ – but I actually mean sad.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki You can’t keep living backwards – Reminiscing on what was, And terrified to pursue What could be.
J.S BrownJ.S Brown
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More on love
I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam I’m happy that I get to work with people that I enjoy being around. It’s really cool when people understand and want to help your vision and are like rooting for you. I just, I love them a lot.
Melanie MartinezMelanie Martinez I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Lovers alone wear sunlight.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Treat yourself with love and respect, and you will attract people who show you love and respect.
Rhonda ByrneRhonda Byrne Laugh because that is the purest sound.
HafezHafez Lovers alone wear sunlight.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings