Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
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There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because it permits and encourages self-knowledge in a way that is less indirect than fiction, more open and speculative.
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We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.
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I polled members of this council separately and it's generally thought we have to work together. But it was a lack of careful consideration that got us into the situation we're in today.
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'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption, I can prepare tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest
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What we have done though is consistently looked for additional opportunities to get stuff done. Wherever we see a possibility of increasing wages, creating more jobs, making sure that more people are able to access opportunity, we're gonna seize it.
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The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.
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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.
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Be relaxed and don't wave the bat, don't clench it. Be ready to hit down with the barrel of the bat. Just swing it and let the weight drive the ball.
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Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.
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Oh, this your wife, huh? A lovely lady. Hey baby, you must've been something before electricity.
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I have a position of indirect respect and oblique power.
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As I "won," I didn't feel the fruits of that. I felt the fruits when I served others, when I gave myself away. . . . I've always seen my life as an experiment. I just want to go to what works. As I felt the charity aspect in my life, the giving aspect, I felt a power and I've walked more into that.
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Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
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I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
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The daughter can become the mother's opportunity either to make up for the past and right wrongs or to exact retribution for her losses. The mother's own experience of the long-ago family serves as an overlay to her mothering: Past and present are inextricably intertwined.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
