The woman’s position in the world today is so much harder than a man’s that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.
KATHARINE HEPBURNOur Constitution was not intended to be used by … any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.
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I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
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I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, ‘Try one. Try a skirt.’
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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
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I think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
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Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That’s what I’ve done.
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Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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I would have been a terrible mother because I’m basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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