Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

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• Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.

  

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• I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

  

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• I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

  

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• I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.

  

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• The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.

  

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• To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.

  

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• I have no mouth, and I must scream.

  

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• If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.

  

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• If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

  

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• If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.

  

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• I like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs.

  

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• There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.

  

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• Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.

  

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• I do believe that our ability to jam the Trump brand is somewhat limited. I think we can chip away at it, but ultimately, the way to undermine the Trump brand is a better product in the political marketplace, if you'll forgive the capitalist metaphor.

  

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• There are times I turn off my Wi-Fi, and I'm selective about what I want to share with the world now.

  

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• There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Sex
  • Write
  • Paris