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.’
KATHARINE HEPBURNYou don’t pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It’s hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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People think that I’m tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.
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Love fattens on smooth words.
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You are the only person you can actually change.
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I’m an atheist, and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.
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Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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It’s either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don’t know what it is, but whatever it is, I’ve got it.
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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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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 never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
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As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
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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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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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