Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Sometimes you can accept an important post, on condition that it really puts you in a position to help women. Unfortunately, women who have important posts very often adopt masculine standards-power, ambition, personal success - and cut themselves off from other women.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Potential
  • Ending

• I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Forever
  • Years
  • Doing

• So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • War
  • Strong
  • Leadership

• I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • House
  • Like
  • Disney

• I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Up
  • Same
  • Roots

• We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
  • Growth
  • See

• I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Guy
  • Party
  • Skinny

• Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Fall
  • Balance
  • Yourself

• A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Women
  • She
  • Man

• We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Music
  • Best
  • Feels

• It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Good
  • Live
  • Play

• Every immortal except Jack Nicklaus has hit a wall and stopped making putts he had to make in order to win. Jack did it for 20 years.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Years
  • Wall
  • Win

• My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Dark

• I heard the sighing of the reedsAt noontide and at evening,And some old dream I had forgottenI seemed to be remembering.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Dream

• Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • People
  • Moral

• To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Power
  • Science
  • Politics

• All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall?

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Music
  • Power

• A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.

  

  Joel Robuchon
  • Good
  • Children
  • Done

• I love doing hair and makeup and making 'Video Star' videos with my friend, Kendall. I also love to draw. But my life is dance, dance and more dance. I wouldn't want it any other way.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Life
  • Love
  • Friend

• Sometimes you can accept an important post, on condition that it really puts you in a position to help women. Unfortunately, women who have important posts very often adopt masculine standards-power, ambition, personal success - and cut themselves off from other women.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Power
  • Help
  • Masculine