Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Pay
  • Discussion
  • Fairness

• I joined NOW on an issue of pay.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Now
  • Pay
  • Issue

• Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Like
  • Anger

• I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Time
  • Different
  • Think

• Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.

  

  Dan Benishek
  • Enough
  • Debt
  • Arrogance

• I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • May
  • Like
  • First

• There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these are books for adults. Actually, they're just stories, and if they're good stories, then they surpass those boundaries.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Good
  • Always
  • Discussion

• My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • People
  • Memory
  • Discussion

• Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Authority
  • Issue
  • Defending

• have worked very hard for two years to resolve this difficult issue. The only way to resolve it is diplomatically. But the Iranian president has offered nothing in this speech to suggest that he wants to abide by the agreement Iran has made.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Issue
  • Iran
  • North American Free Trade Agreement

• Malcolm X had a habit of scribbling notes in small pieces of paper that [Alex] Haley would surreptitiously pick up at the end of their discussions.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Up
  • Small
  • Habit

• There's such an arrogance to savers sometimes. And I'm a saver, so I can say that.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Arrogance
  • Saver

• It's dead - for the time being. This issue goes in cycles.

  

  Alan Young
  • Time
  • Dead
  • Issue

• If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.

  

  Alveda King
  • War
  • Black
  • Growth

• Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Life
  • Death
  • Discussion

• The issue is that we, with our fears, our attacks, our judgments, our blame, and our constant emphasis on the realm of the body rather than the realm of love, eclipse the experience of true love.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Experience
  • True
  • Issue

• What we're trying to do is set the bar a little bit higher. This has been a very contentious, very emotional (issue).

  

  Charles Edwards
  • Trying
  • Emotional
  • Issue

• To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Discussion
  • Refuse
  • False

• I recognise that the whole issue of downloading and intellectual property rights is not an easy one, but on the whole, I'm a fan of downloading, both legal and illegal, and the open-source ethos that it harbours for the future is a good one.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Future
  • Rights
  • Intellectual

• I just think that this whole issue of creating potential human life, not to give life, but to give the scientists a bit more of a leg-up, is fraught with danger.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Issue
  • Scientists
  • Human Life

• Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the economy is not economics. Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Study
  • Economy
  • Economics

• I don't read any reviews, so I'm oblivious to what they have to say. I'm completely unaware. It's fantastic.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Say
  • Reviews
  • Unaware

• Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Thought
  • Dying
  • Cancer

• If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Issue
  • Discussion
  • Arrogance