It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
BETTE DAVISWith the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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I work to stay alive.
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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