“Few people remember good women. They don't forget bad girls.”

— Joan Bennett

" "Be Good And Be Forgotten," Says Star https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/48485193?searchTerm=joan+bennett+hiss" (1946)

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American actress 1910–1990

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

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“We remember the good times and the bad ones, forgetting that most times are neither good nor bad. They just are.”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

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“Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have the time.”

Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) American actress

As quoted in The Pleasures of Diaries: Four Centuries of Private Writing (1989) by Ronald Blythe, p. 3
As quoted in Diaries of Ireland: An Anthology, 1590-1987 (1997) by Melosina Lenox-Conynghim, p. vii
Variant: Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

“Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.”

Paula Danziger (1945–2004) American children's writer

“(Second Bad Girl) Women who form relationships with murderers [in prison]. I don't get it. (First bad girl) Well, you know where they are at nights. (Second bad girl) At least, they're not lying on your couch watching TV.”

Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 67

“There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

“Good girls don't hurt other people's feelings. Good girls are not overly aggressive, competitive, or boastful. Good girls please others. But what good girls are good for is another question.”

Susan Jane Gilman (1924) American writer

Source: Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess

“They say you can't turn a bad girl good
But once a good girl's gone bad, she's gone forever”

Jay-Z (1969) American rapper, businessman, entrepreneur, record executive, songwriter, record producer and investor

Song Cry
The Blueprint (2001)

“Good soldiers, bad officers; however don't forget that without them we would not have any Civilization.”

Erwin Rommel (1891–1944) German field marshal of World War II

On Italians, sometimes cited to The Rommel Papers (1953) edited by Basil Henry Liddell Hart, but without specific chapter or page citations; it seems to summarize an attitude indicated by Rommel in Ch. 11 of that work, but no published occurrence of this has actually been located.
Disputed

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”

Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress

Source: Me: Stories of My Life

“Few people remember good women. They don't forget bad girls.”

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