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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.

Bette Davis

If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
BETTE DAVIS

Born Children Men Sex
I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
BETTE DAVIS

Men Thinking Woman
I’ve always liked men better than women.
BETTE DAVIS

Man Woman
The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
BETTE DAVIS

Marriage Secret
There’s only one way to work — like hell.
BETTE DAVIS

Hell One Way Way
With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
BETTE DAVIS

Death Inspiration Memories
If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
BETTE DAVIS

Children Hate Parents Yourself
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
BETTE DAVIS

Adventure Cheat Funny Love Marriage
At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
BETTE DAVIS

Black Myself Proud Thinking
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
BETTE DAVIS

Hands Myself Passion Purpose Togetherness Work
There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
BETTE DAVIS

Acting Hollywood Party
I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
BETTE DAVIS

Live Myself
Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
BETTE DAVIS

Marriage Money Sex
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
BETTE DAVIS

Age Couple
I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
BETTE DAVIS

Beginning Myself Time War
One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
BETTE DAVIS

Career Careers Hollywood Myself Respect Truth

I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.

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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.

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