I work to stay alive.
BETTE DAVISThere comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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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.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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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.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
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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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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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