Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
Quote by Bette Davis
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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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Bette Davis Quotes
- I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
- Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
- The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
- The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
- I've lost my faith in science.
- 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.
- To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
- Strong women only marry weak men.
- 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.
- I've lost my faith in science.
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