Havelock Ellis Quotes
Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
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In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'
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But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
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In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume.
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I believe it's a woman's right to decide what she wants to wear and if a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?
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I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.
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I think it's clear that Planned Parenthood has worked to mislead the public about who they are... they do not provide mammograms. They are the middleman, or middle woman, if you will.
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When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
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Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.
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As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.
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Cornering is like bringing a woman to climax.
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As a woman, I feel it's important to support causes that are important to my core customer, who is also a woman, as well as causes that resonate with me personally.
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It's just so cool to be able to go out to dinner and buy my mom's dinner now. You know what I mean? She's just done so much for me. I love that I can give back to her now because she's the most amazing woman ever.
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Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
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No woman is completely happy with their body.
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You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why look for friends or partners who will just shore up your self-esteem instead of ones who will also challenge you to grow? And why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you? The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.
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One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
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Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
