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Attributed quotes — Bette Davis

1908–1989 United States

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Miss Bankhead isn't well enough known nationally to warrant my imitating her.

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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

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When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. Discipline is guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.

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Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

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Old age ain't no place for sissies.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bette Davis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.