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I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.
Katharine Hepburn -
You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
Katharine Hepburn
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
Katharine Hepburn -
I won't go to a restaurant to eat with friends, always join them afterwards for coffee. In company I always get over enthusiastic, and this leads to indigestion.
Katharine Hepburn -
I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
Katharine Hepburn -
'My beautiful Grandmother - Caroline Garlinghouse - came from Pittsburgh - my mother's mother. I never met her but I have followed many of her ideas - through my mother - And it has given me a warm spot in my heart for your city...My grandmother's brother, Fred Garlinghouse, lived in Pittsburgh, was an engineer and apparently worked for Jones & Laughlin.'
Katharine Hepburn -
Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.
Katharine Hepburn -
The woman's position in the world today is so much harder than a man's that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.
Katharine Hepburn
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To be loved is very demoralizing.
Katharine Hepburn -
What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
Katharine Hepburn -
To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then 'act as if' you know how to do the rest.
Katharine Hepburn -
Drive on. We'll sweep up the blood later!
Katharine Hepburn -
It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
Katharine Hepburn -
It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
Katharine Hepburn
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Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
Katharine Hepburn -
If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn -
You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.
Katharine Hepburn -
Now how can anybody look at that and not believe in God? I mean, how can anybody look at this and not believe there is some higher power, some divine force at work in the universe greater than Man, some god that created it, that created all this, that created us?
Katharine Hepburn -
I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
Katharine Hepburn -
What in the world would we do without our libraries?
Katharine Hepburn
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It's not what you start in life, it's what you finish.
Katharine Hepburn -
When a man says he likes a woman in a skirt, I tell him to try one.
Katharine Hepburn -
My, I like Judy Holliday! She looks like a Monet model. And she's so - so defenseless. I like defenseless people. They're the best.
Katharine Hepburn -
In some ways I've lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. I've been as terrified as the next person, but you've got to keep going.
Katharine Hepburn