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#1

“Getting old is not for sissies.”
― Bette Davis

#2

“I never wished I’d been a man. I always felt like a woman and wanted to be a woman. I wanted to be fulfilled professionally and personally, as a woman. There are some who might say I had penis envy, but I only had penis admiration.”
― Bette Davis

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#3

“Success only breeds a new goal”
― Bette Davis

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#4

“Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.”
― Bette Davis

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#5

“Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.”
― Bette Davis

tags: funny

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#6

“If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.”
― Bette Davis

tags: children, parenting

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#7

“Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.”
― Bette Davis

tags: bette-davis, eyes

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#8

“I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my makeup box.”
― Bette Davis

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#9

“I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.”
― Bette Davis

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#10

“To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lovely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.”
― Bette Davis

tags: inspirational

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#11

“If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.”
― Bette Davis

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#12

“This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”
― Bette Davis

tags: actress

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#13

“Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.”
― Bette Davis

tags: men-women-make-up-humor

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#14

“I'de luv to kiss ya but I just washed my hair.”
― Bette Davis

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#15

“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.”
― Bette Davis

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#16

“I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.”
― Bette Davis

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#17

“You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.”
― Bette Davis

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#18

“I am just too much.”
― Bette Davis

tags: bette, davis, much

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#19

“Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.”
― Bette Davis

tags: advice, discipline, parenhood

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#20

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
― Bette Davis

tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, misogyny, opinions, speaking-out, stereotypes, women

6181 likes

#21

“There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.”
― Bette Davis

tags: champagne, drinking

286 likes

#22

“If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.”
― Bette Davis

tags: parenting

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#23

“It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.”
― Bette Davis

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#24

“The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.”
― Bette Davis

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#25

“Old age ain't no place for sissies.”
― Bette Davis

tags: age

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#26

“You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.”
― bette davis

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#27

“Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, to yielding.”
― Bette Davis

tags: love

100 likes

#28

“Everybody has a heart. Except some people.”
― Bette Davis

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#29

“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”
― Bette Davis

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#30

“I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.”
― Bette Davis

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