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„Das Alter ist kein Ort für Weichlinge.“

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Original engl.: Although she professed not to care about aging, she celebrated her 70th birthday by hanging a black wreath on her door and needlepointing a pillow that read "Old age ain't no place for sissies." - Nachruf in Newsweek 1989, p. 69 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=UPomAQAAIAAJ&q=sissies
Auch der 1977 verstorbene Pharmaunternehmer Eli Lilly soll den Ausspruch im Alter oft gebraucht haben und von einer Freundin mit einem entsprechend beschrifteten Kissen beschenkt worden sein, James H. Madison: Eli Lilly: A Life, 1885-1977 (1989) p. 257 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=DRGTAAAAIAAJ&q=%22sissies%22.
Der Fernsehunterhalter Art Linkletter veröffentlichte 1988 im Alter von 76 Jahren das Buch Old Age Is Not for Sissies - Choices for Senior Americans, vgl. The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations, selected and annotated by Hugh Rawson & Margaret Mine, New York 2006, p. 489 http://books.google.de/books?id=whg05Z4Nwo0C&pg=PA489&dq=sissies.
Siehe auch Joachim Fuchsberger: Altwerden ist nichts für Feiglinge.
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Über Alter

„Wenn ein Mann seine Meinung sagt, ist er ein Mann. Wenn eine Frau ihre Meinung sagt, ist sie eine Zicke.“

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(Original engl.: "When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch." - Newsweek 1994 books.google (p. 112)) http://books.google.de/books?id=QnfuAAAAMAAJ&q=bitch
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Über Frauen , Über Männer

Bette Davis: Zitate auf Englisch

“I think Mr. Reagan has done very well under very difficult circumstances. He's had terrific problems physically and he's managed them very well. But my God, the witch hunt today! Is there any human being alive who hasn't done something bad in their youth - like maybe smoke marijuana once? And this man (Judge Ginsburg) found it necessary to admit it! My God! It would be like Mr. Jack Kennedy sitting down and listing all the women (he knew) before he got in.”

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Liz Smith, United Press (November 23, 1987) "A Whale of an Interview With Bette Davis", San Francisco Chronicle, p. F1.

“In the beginning was the Word,' and you must not be tempted with a script just because you have a great part. You want a great role to play, but the whole - the whole - must be good. It'll never succeed if it's just the role you like.”

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Louise Sweeney (December 28, 1987) "Bette Davis: On the heels of a new honor and a new film, a screen legend looks back over her 60-year career", Christian Science Monitor, p. 19.

“My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.”

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Lorraine A. Darconte, Pride Matters: Quotes to Inspire Your Personal Best, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2001, ISBN 0740718835, p. 56.
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“I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life.”

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Nina J. Easton, Los Angeles Times (January 4, 1989) "Bette Davis smoking over `Stepmother' role", Houston Chronicle, p. 10.

“May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.”

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Cathy Collison (November 16, 1983) "Savitch Remembered Crim In Will", Detroit Free Press, p. 14D.

“Old age ain't no place for sissies.”

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Roz Warren, Rosalind Warren, Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, Sourcebooks, Inc., 2006, ISBN 1402203918, p. 179.
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