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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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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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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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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Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men in their place than you did to keep women in their place.
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There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it.
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I'm a straight guy and I date women, but I get on really well with gay guys. I'm very comfortable with my sexuality. The weirdest thing for me is when straight guys get really freaked out by gay guys. It's almost like they're insecure in their own sexuality. For me, I can be in a room full of gay men and have fun.
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It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.
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If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
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The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.
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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.
