Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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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.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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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.
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Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
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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.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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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.
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between creating an atmosphere of distrust and one of trust, between setting an example of power and helping children to learn responsibility, between quick-fix parenting and the kind that's focused on long-term goals.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
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I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
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It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.
