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.
BETTE DAVISThe world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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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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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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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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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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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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