People think that I’m tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.
KATHARINE HEPBURNI never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Our Constitution was not intended to be used by … any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
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To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then ‘act as if’ you know how to do the rest.
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I love rain. It’s lucky, I always think.
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The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one’s responsibilities: That’s happiness.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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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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Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.
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You don’t pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It’s hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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I don’t care WHAT the say about me, as long as it’s not the truth.
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I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time.
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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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Love fattens on smooth words.
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If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
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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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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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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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You are the only person you can actually change.
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Never complain. Never explain.
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What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong but don’t just avoid.
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.
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