Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Simone de Beauvoir
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My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.
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The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
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"Say whatever you choose about the object, and whatever you might say is not it." Or, in other wordsː "Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not." This negative statement is final, because it is negative.
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Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
Richard Schickel
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As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
Ibrahim Babangida
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That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public education, and how young persons should be educated, are questions which remain to be considered. As things are, there is disagreement about the subjects. For mankind are by no means agreed about the things to be taught, whether we look to virtue or the best life. Neither is it clear whether education is more concerned with intellectual or with moral virtue.
Aristotle
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The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.
Confucius
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Simone de Beauvoir
