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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.

Bette Davis

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
BETTE DAVIS

Commitment Humanity Love Religion
I’ve always liked men better than women.
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Man Woman
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
BETTE DAVIS

Age Couple
You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
BETTE DAVIS

Inspirational Lose Talent Yourself
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
BETTE DAVIS

Expense Happiness Lose
You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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Missing Moments Sailing
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
BETTE DAVIS

Experience Myself Reward Shapes
Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
BETTE DAVIS

Future Life Past
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
BETTE DAVIS

Hollywood Important Legs
If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
BETTE DAVIS

Career Life Myself
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
If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
BETTE DAVIS

Children Hate Parents Yourself
One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
BETTE DAVIS

Brain Enemy Myself Thinking
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
Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
BETTE DAVIS

Appearance Look Movie
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Believe Children Home World

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