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I truly believed that other people in my position didn't make mistakes; I couldn't see that everybody makes them, even people with great experience.


Katharine Graham

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KATHARINE HEPBURN Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.
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 ...
KATHARINE HEPBURN Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
KATHARINE HEPBURN I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.
KATHARINE HEPBURN My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup o...
KATHARINE HEPBURN If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get marr...
KATHARINE HEPBURN Try asking for equal pay while wearing a baby-doll frock
KATHARINE VINER . . . as one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
KATHARINE HEPBURN It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.
KATHARINE HEPBURN I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.
KATHARINE HEPBURN What in the world would we do without our libraries?
KATHARINE HEPBURN Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the gi...
KATHARINE WEBER Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes thing...
KATHARINE ISABELLE Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don'...
KATHARINE HEPBURN Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about...
KATHARINE HEPBURN To be loved is very demoralizing
KATHARINE HEPBURN Tea at Five
KATHARINE HEPBURN Someone asked someone who was about my age: "How are you?" The answer was, "Fine. If you don't ask f...
KATHARINE HEPBURN It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what is between her ears instead of her legs.
KATHARINE HEPBURN It's life, isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then som...
KATHARINE HEPBURN I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical to love, honor, and obey.
KATHARINE HEPBURN Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to ...
KATHARINE HEPBURN I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind t...
KATHARINE HEPBURN If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun
KATHARINE HEPBURN Drive on. We'll sweep up the blood later!
KATHARINE HEPBURN There is no evidence of a conspiracy ... the state failed because there is no conspiracy.
KATHARINE LIELL We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - yo...
KATHARINE HEPBURN Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling...
KATHARINE HEPBURN Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
KATHARINE HEPBURN I personally am a 'discovery writer,' as we're termed, someone who plans the book by wri...
KATHARINE KERR