Quotes by Norma Shearer

• The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.
• Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.
• Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!
• It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.
• Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.
• A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.
• An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.