Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.
Quotes to Explore
-
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
-
I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
-
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
-
If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
-
I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
-
Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
-
I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
-
Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
-
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
-
I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
-
Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
-
I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
-
In a perfect world, I only act when I really want to. I don't do most of the stuff that is out there, but it's a joy and a pleasure to do anything that promotes this higher power - this light, if you will. I just think there aren't enough projects in the world that do that.
-
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
-
I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, even if English is their second language.
-
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
-
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
-
People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.
-
I lost twins at 14 weeks, and I had to have an D and C on my birthday.
-
I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.
-
The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God.
-
I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
-
I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
-
It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.
