One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
BETTE DAVISAs 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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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.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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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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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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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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