Betty White quote: "I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn't choose to have children because I'm focused on my career. And I just don't think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both."

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, ...
BETTY WHITE

Why do people say "grow some balls"? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vag...
BETTY WHITE

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?
BETTY WHITE

I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.
BETTY WHITE

Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's.
BETTY WHITE

I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do.
BETTY WHITE

I've enjoyed the opposite sex a lot. Always have. Always will.
BETTY WHITE

When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, Oh, well, she's preaching. I'm not preaching, bu...
BETTY WHITE

My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without ...
BETTY WHITE

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds lik...
BETTY WHITE

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.
BETTY WHITE

Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods.
BETTY WHITE

I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've...
BETTY WHITE

I may be a senior, but so what? I'm still hot.
BETTY WHITE

Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I...
BETTY WHITE

Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing o...
BETTY WHITE

I think a lot of people like hidden-camera shows where they think they're spying on somebody who...
BETTY WHITE

Animals are near and dear to my heart, and I've devoted my life to trying to improve their lives...
BETTY WHITE

I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That...
BETTY WHITE

Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them bet...
BETTY WHITE

I love words. Sudoku I don't get into, I'm not into numbers that much, and there are people ...
BETTY WHITE

You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.
BETTY WHITE

If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side,...
BETTY WHITE

It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself ...
BETTY WHITE

I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan ...
BETTY WHITE

If you have one good series, you know, it's a blessing. Two good series is unusual. Three is a p...
BETTY WHITE

Why retire from something if you're loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you're bl...
BETTY WHITE

A lot of people think this is a goodie two-shoes talking. But we do have a tendency to complain rath...
BETTY WHITE

If everyone took personal responsibility for their animals, we wouldn't have a lot of the animal...
BETTY WHITE

It's a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approx...
BETTY WHITE

A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are...
BETTY WHITE

During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy t...
BETTY WHITE

The bottom line is, I'm blessed with good health. On top of that, I don't go around thinking...
BETTY WHITE

I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, s...
BETTY WHITE

I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the ...
BETTY WHITE

Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.
BETTY WHITE

I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Ta...
BETTY WHITE

I am interested in a lot of things - not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to kee...
BETTY WHITE

I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that'...
BETTY WHITE

I'm the luckiest broad on two feet, I'll tell you that. They say once a woman passes 40 she ...
BETTY WHITE

I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don...
BETTY WHITE

All creatures must learn to coexist. That’s why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their...
BETTY WHITE

Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on
BETTY WHITE

She said they're OK, but the house is flooded up to the second floor right now,
BETTY WHITE

I majored in English in college, ... but whenever I had doubts when I was writing, I'd always call N...
BETTY WHITE

He loves the fact that he is kind of a star in all this. He's always wanted to be on TV.
BETTY WHITE

Of course, nobody's tearing my door down. If you're successful you're going to intimidat...
BETTY WHITE

'Mary Tyler Moore' was - it was my first big hit.
BETTY WHITE

I am the luckiest old broad on two feet if the truth were known. It's - but it all goes back to ...
BETTY WHITE

A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
BETTY WHITE

They've kind of surrounded him by some old friends of the audience, ... so that the audience will fe...
BETTY WHITE

I love being able to contribute to medical education and science.
BETTY WHITE

I feel like it's what God wants me to do. I know how it feels and how devastated people can be.
BETTY WHITE

We've been real sensitive to that since we saw the stand Kamehameha Schools took. But even though th...
BETTY WHITE

All creatures must learn to coexist. Thats why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their ...
BETTY WHITE

You know what the problem that animal activists sometimes have? They only concentrate on the heartbr...
BETTY WHITE

I've worked with Morris Animal Foundation for more than 40 years now, and I'm so proud of al...
BETTY WHITE

I think older women still have a full life.
BETTY WHITE

I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to ha...
BETTY WHITE

I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!
BETTY WHITE

It’s [old age] not a surprise, we knew it was coming – make the most of it. So you may not be as...
BETTY WHITE

It's been phenomenal, but everybody keeps congratulating me on my resurgence and my big comeback...
BETTY WHITE

The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.
BETTY WHITE

I don't care who anybody sleeps with. If a couple has been together all that time - and there ar...
BETTY WHITE

I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.
BETTY WHITE

I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just - there wasn't a straight man in...
BETTY WHITE

Trolls suck.
BETTY WHITE

You can lie to anyone in the world and even get away with it, perhaps, but when you are alone and lo...
BETTY WHITE

Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, al...
BETTY WILLIAMS

I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian.
BETTY DODSON

When they first grabbed us, yeah, it terrified, but they calmed me down.
BETTY HILL

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. ...
BETTY FRIEDAN

I grew up in a lot of stage managers' booths, memorizing the lines. I'm sure I was the most ...
BETTY GILPIN

When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can ...
BETTY FORD

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clo...
BETTY SMITH

I have learned so much personally from wrestling, and it has really bled into my daily life.
BETTY GILPIN

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss t...
BETTY SMITH

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
BETTY FRIEDAN

Because," explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagi...
BETTY SMITH

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'di...
BETTY SMITH

The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, wi...
BETTY GRABLE

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.
BETTY FRIEDAN

Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equip...
BETTY ROLLIN

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominanc...
BETTY FRIEDAN

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were al...
BETTY FRIEDAN

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
BETTY FRIEDAN

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time ...
BETTY SMITH

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.
BETTY BENDER

The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange sti...
BETTY FRIEDAN

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was s...
BETTY FRIEDAN

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of...
BETTY FRIEDAN

Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mys...
BETTY FRIEDAN

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g...
BETTY GRABLE

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan yo...
BETTY FRIEDAN

Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
BETTY FRIEDAN

The world was hers for the reading.
BETTY SMITH

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
BETTY FRIEDAN

It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and mus...
BETTY BUCKLEY

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of...
BETTY FRIEDAN

15 minutes will open up the amnesia and you'll have full recall.
BETTY HILL

Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia.
BETTY HILL

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
BETTY FRIEDAN

I think once I made up my mind that I was allergic to alcohol, and that's what I learned, it mad...
BETTY FORD

I looked over and saw this man on the extreme right aisle sort of galloping to the podium. He was ta...
BETTY SHABAZZ

I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I'...
BETTY FIELD

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. W...
BETTY FRIEDAN

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mys...
BETTY FRIEDAN

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselv...
BETTY FRIEDAN

I always say that non-violence is not the weapon of the weak. It is the weapon of the strong.
BETTY WILLIAMS

I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do...
BETTY FORD

I would do musicals in high school where there was dancing, and I would sing my verse, and then they...
BETTY GILPIN

They kept telling us they needed office supplies, so we just started doing that instead. Over the ye...
BETTY WILLIAMS

There's no use talking about the problem unless you talk about the solution.
BETTY WILLIAMS

Let's have no empty talk from this assembly, let's get something done.
BETTY WILLIAMS

That could've been disastrous. Normally they would be in that classroom, except today.
BETTY WILLIAMS

God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless...
BETTY WILLIAMS

We have 2,290 more people in the work force this March than we did a year ago.
BETTY WILLIAMS

I feel a women's role has got to be a gentle role and perhaps if we can do it correctly, the men wou...
BETTY WILLIAMS

Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equate...
BETTY WILLIAMS

It's gonna be a great thing. They do wonderful work helping people. We'll have a lot of celebrating ...
BETTY WILLIAMS

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.
BETTY SMITH

Look at everthing as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on ...
BETTY SMITH

You should have heard him 10 minutes ago.
BETTY SMITH

(Donations) slow down during the summer. I've only been here since the first of the year, but it has...
BETTY SMITH

We've used a lot of stuff since the Can-Care-A-Van. We go through pork and beans and green beans and...
BETTY SMITH

Dear God, let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. L...
BETTY SMITH

There are four stages of wellness, ... The first is when you are sick, the second, when you are not ...
BETTY SIEGEL

Atlanta's fast growing business market and diverse population provide the ideal location for this ve...
BETTY SIEGEL

Global Learning for Engaged Citizenship.
BETTY SIEGEL

There's a whole energy . . . that extends out into the evening,
BETTY SIEGEL

A lot of these are drug related, but until we get to the root of the problem, in fact, we don't know...
BETTY SCHWAB

There's been approximately 11 or 12 within the last month in the German Village area.
BETTY SCHWAB

He became violent and hit the teller with a closed fist and bound the teller as well.
BETTY SCHWAB

He had a gun, came around the corner and demanded the teller give him the cash, and as for the safe,...
BETTY SCHWAB

Anyone that hits anything, you would know that you've hit something. You need to stop and at least c...
BETTY SCHWAB

We are working very hard at collecting any kind of evidence and looking at places that we probably n...
BETTY SCHWAB

I couldn't figure out if she was a robot or a real person! It's fascinating.
BETTY ROGERS

Being a farmer is not just what he does. It's who he is.
BETTY ROGERS

There was a dead-end street when I got married. It was quiet, peaceful and there were no factories.
BETTY ROGERS

I think it's great. It's just such a riot.
BETTY ROGERS

Over a 20-year period, we have seen the stock market go up and down, and when it's up, we've seen it...
BETTY NOSTDAHL

What keeps the club together is that we are set on a format already proven to be a logical way to ru...
BETTY NOSTDAHL

All members look to see what stocks we could be interested in adding. The financial partner contacts...
BETTY NOSTDAHL

We do special things to celebrate the club. We go places to eat, and we celebrated our 10th annivers...
BETTY NOSTDAHL

The doctor said that he may come out with a Big Mac in his mouth.
BETTY MONTGOMERY

[Law-enforcement officials are among the biggest supporters of the legislation.] For generations, mo...
BETTY MONTGOMERY

This is a 50-50 state, ... We are a crossroads state and very diverse. We've never really elected an...
BETTY MONTGOMERY

As with any crime, we can't completely control whether we become a victim,
BETTY MONTGOMERY

Everybody's over here to make money for themselves.
BETTY HILL

And we turned off and 30 miles south they're standing in the middle of our road blocking our way, st...
BETTY HILL

And there was huge numbers of UFOs around my parents home in Kingston.
BETTY HILL

And then I went to the University of New Hampshire for two years, and then the war came along.
BETTY HILL

And that's how I wrote to NICAP, but then later, just very soon after that, like three weeks later, ...
BETTY HILL

And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one...
BETTY HILL

Actually, actually, when he first put us into hypnosis, he didn't know what he was going to get.
BETTY HILL

A week or so ago I did a two hour book review in Baltimore Maryland.
BETTY HILL

15 minutes will open up the amnesia and you'll have full recall.
BETTY HILL

This whole evening has been a once in a lifetime opportunity for Shelbyville. I'm thankful for the c...
BETTY HARRISON

This whole evening has been a once in a lifetime opportunity for Shelbyville, ... I'm thankful for t...
BETTY HARRISON

Because the world has gone this way, we would be foolish not to give our kids access to these machin...
BETTY HARRISON

I have no evidence anyone is doing any more substantial research because they're on the Internet tha...
BETTY HARRISON

You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tigh...
BETTY GRABLE

With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.
BETTY GRABLE

The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching.
BETTY GRABLE

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g...
BETTY GRABLE

I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.
BETTY GRABLE

There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them.
BETTY GRABLE

The glorification of the ""'woman's role,"" then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance ...
BETTY FRIEDAN

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were al...
BETTY FRIEDAN

Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength
BETTY FRIEDAN

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy bei...
BETTY FRIEDAN

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
BETTY FORD

Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.
BETTY FORD

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle...
BETTY FORD

It's my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you have...
BETTY FORD

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old....
BETTY FORD

Have a nice trip, Dick.
BETTY FORD

The process turns you off, and it's got to where I don't even know who's lying and who's telling the...
BETTY FORD

If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to ...
BETTY DODSON

If we all talked honestly about what's really happening in our sex lives, we'd realise that we're al...
BETTY DODSON

I used to think masturbation was not really sex because it only involved me. That's a very limited v...
BETTY DODSON

I like to see oral sex and manual sex and intercourse as foreplay for my vibrator sex.
BETTY DODSON

I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting ...
BETTY DODSON

I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian.
BETTY DODSON

If we could grow up knowing that the genitals are beautiful parts of our bodies, we'd be proud, we w...
BETTY DODSON

I went through the '70s and '80s saying, I'm a heterosexual bisexual lesbian, and whenever I said th...
BETTY DODSON

If you are using your childhood masturbation technique, you are not developing sexually. We, of cour...
BETTY DODSON

I've spent the past six years with a young man, which was a nice break, dipping back into heterosexu...
BETTY DODSON

The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it.
BETTY CUTHBERT

No way did I ever think I was going to win the 100m.
BETTY CUTHBERT

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that ...
BETTY CUTHBERT

My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things ...
BETTY CUTHBERT

My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m.
BETTY CUTHBERT

I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to ...
BETTY CUTHBERT

Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.
BETTY CUTHBERT

I can understand how evolution says, "don't believe in God", but I've never had this problem. I've a...
BETTY CUTHBERT

I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it.
BETTY CUTHBERT

I've always loved God, His creation, the plants, the trees and the animals. Mum went to church and s...
BETTY CUTHBERT

You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do.
BETTY CARTER

This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is sca...
BETTY CARTER

I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn't choose to have children because I'm focused on my career. And I just don't think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both.

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Betty White

I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn't choose to have children because I'm focused on my career. And I just don't think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both.

Betty White

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