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 DAVISThe real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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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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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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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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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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