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"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself."

"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"

"Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime."

"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
Explore more quotes by Katharine Hepburn

"When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous."

"It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels."

"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."

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything."

"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around."

"To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time."

"I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid."

"Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself."
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