Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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• Women
• May
• Soul
• Pretty
• Desire
• Literature
• Cold

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• Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

  

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• The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

  

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• The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.

  

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• Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

  

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• The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.

  

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• I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.

  

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• Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.

  

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• My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

  

  Mamie Gummer
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• Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.

  

  Barry Diller
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• If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

  

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• I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.

  

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• In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

  

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• I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.

  

  Barry Jenkins
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• I think if I was 5-foot-3, I would have been really popular and dated a lot more in high school. I didn't develop like the pretty girl.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
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• I was in Toronto when the big Women's March was going on, and I thought, 'Well, I've never been to a protest, and I can't sit this one out, and they're having a gathering here in Toronto, so I may as well go,' and gosh, I didn't expect 60,000 or 65,000 people to be there - it was huge! It was something that I didn't feel I could sit out at all.

  

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• I think girls from a young age know what they want, and boys kind of have to keep up and catch up to them. Even in kindergarten, girls are pretty much the ones that like the boy first and the boys are like, 'Oh, I want to play with my trucks.' They think it's not cool. I think girls are definitely more ahead than boys.

  

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• I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.

  

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• Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large it was, as we shall see, a blessing in disguise.

  

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• I don't like things to be overcharged, because otherwise everyone starts getting nervous. I try to be very well organized. When I write the script, everything is already in there, like the decoupage.

  

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• I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

  

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• I want to be helpful to the charities I support. I think you can dilute it, the more you do. You have to be a bit strong about what you do... otherwise, you risk spreading yourself a bit thin, and you can be less useful.

  

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• Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

  

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• The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Writing
  • Women
  • May