Katharine Hepburn

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

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.

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

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.

It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what is between her ears instead of her legs.

Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.

It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.

You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.

I don't regret anything I've ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.

You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you.

I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.

Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.

He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.

I don't feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it's here. And I think anything good that you're going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.