It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
KATHARINE HEPBURNChildren need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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I’ve always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It’s inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?
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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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If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
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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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Love fattens on smooth words.
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You can’t change the music of your soul.
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It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
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Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you’ve got less to sell.
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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I’ve had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
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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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If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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