If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
KATHARINE HEPBURNBeing 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.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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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.
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You are the only person you can actually change.
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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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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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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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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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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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Enemies are so stimulating.
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It’s how you live that really counts.
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I don’t believe in marriage. It’s bloody impractical. ‘To love, honor, and obey.’ If it weren’t, you wouldn’t have to sign a contract.
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Isn’t it fun getting older? is really a terrible fallacy. That’s like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
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If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
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