Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.
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Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.
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Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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I'm attracted to men who just love what they do, have confidence in what they do and have potential to be on their own if they need to be.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.
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Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.
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I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21... younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I've always been kind of young for my age.
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By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.
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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
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Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.
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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.
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The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.
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Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.
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When you're in Hollywood, you get sort of jaded about what you think the sense of humor of Hollywood is supposed to be, so you can't think outside the box.
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I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.
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When I was in first grade, some psychologist told my mom if I didn't go to graduate school, she basically failed as a parent, because I had the aptitude to do it. Which is so dumb. Huge pressure!
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Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest.
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Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.
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Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.
