Bette Davis
Actress
"Getting old is not for sissies."
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Sissy
15 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Irwin Shaw
Novelist, Playwright
"Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy."
Princess Diana
Philanthropist, Humanitarian
"It's not sissy to show your feeling."
Harry Hay
Activist
"Underneath that facade, I'm a terrified little sissy, just like everybody else. But I never let it show."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Author, Statistician
"We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience."
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"Old age ain't for sissies"
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"I thought Sissy Hickey should be really skinny and leathery and have one of those really husky voices, but Del Shores kept saying, "I wrote this part for you." He took me to his house and showed me pictures of all his Texas relatives, and they looked exactly like my family."
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