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• I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

• Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

• Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

• Old age is no place for sissies.

• Three years ago I was forty... forty! Four-oh! That slipped out. Now I suddenly feel as if I've taken all my clothes off.

• At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.

• Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

• Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

• With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

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Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis. Each quotation page in this collection and the entire collection © Jone Johnson Lewis 1997-2005. This is an informal collection assembled over many years. I regret that I am not be able to provide the original source if it is not listed with the quote.

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Jone Johnson Lewis. "Bette Davis Quotes." About Women's History. URL: http://womenshistory.about.com/od/quotes/a/bette_davis.htm . Date accessed: (today). (More on how to cite online sources including this page)