Monday, August 25, 2008

If Katherine Hepburn had had a child...

"If I'd had a child," she said, "and the child got sick and was crying just as I had to leave for the theatre, where hundreds of people were waiting for me to perform, and I had to make a choice--the play or the child--well, I'd smother the child to death and go on with the show. You just can't have both," she said with frightening certainty, "a career and children."

(Katherine Hepburn, quoted by Jane Fonda, in My Life So Far, by Jane Fonda, p. 428.)

--Submitted by Chandra Garsson