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.
KATHARINE HEPBURNWouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.
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Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.
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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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Love fattens on smooth words.
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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.
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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
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Nobody owes anybody anything; it’s up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.
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I don’t feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it’s here. And I think anything good that you’re going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.
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If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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