As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
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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Loved people are loving people.
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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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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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Never complain. Never explain.
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If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
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I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to, and I’ve made enough money to support myself, and ain’t afraid of being alone
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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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Wouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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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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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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