Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Ce n'est gue' re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente" tement une foi entie' re en des regards absents; normalement, elles re clament des te moins. Women fond of dress are hardly ever entirely satisfied not to be seen, except among the insane; usually they want witnesses.

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• I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.

  

  Abby Wambach
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• But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'

  

  Ted Strickland
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• I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

  

  Laila Ali
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• Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  

  Francesca Annis
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• Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
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• A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.

  

  Zendaya
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• Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

  

  E. L. James
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• I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.

  

  Patricia Riggen
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• For me, doing a show is great, but I want women to be able to wear the clothes easily as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
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• Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.

  

  Venus Williams
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• I want to do a little bit of everything. I love sci-fi. I think it's more the characters that draw me towards things. I like strong women. I'm very interested in futuristic stuff, anything.

  

  Sabrina Lloyd
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• I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Women
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• I've made a professional reputation playing working-class, middle-class, American women. There's a real sense of stoicism and pragmatism and strength and lyricism of a woman like that.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• I put out a call on Twitter and Facebook and email for women to tell me their stories about their abortions. And many women said, 'I told my boyfriend I was pregnant, and that was the last I ever heard of them.'

  

  Katha Pollitt
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• There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Women
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• Unless the issue of the empowerment of women is addressed, the practice of women being unfairly treated will remain unresolved.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Women
  • Practice
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• Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Women
  • Money
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• Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• Whenever I look at a baby or children in general, I smile and just want to play with them.

  

  Odeya Rush
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• I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.

  

  Wendell Berry
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• I have the words 'love' and 'life' on my knuckles, and I would half like those removed.

  

  James Arthur
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• Ce n'est gue' re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente" tement une foi entie' re en des regards absents; normalement, elles re clament des te moins. Women fond of dress are hardly ever entirely satisfied not to be seen, except among the insane; usually they want witnesses.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Women
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  • Witnesses