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

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

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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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• As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day.

  

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• As lines, so loves oblique may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet.

  

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• To this day my seat on a saddle or on the back of a horse is as secure and tireless as in a rocking chair, and far more pleasurable. Sometimes, in later years, when I found myself suddenly on a strange horse in a trooper's saddle, flying for life or liberty in front of pursuit, I blessed the baby lessons of the wild gallops among the beautiful colts.

  

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• The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through.

  

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• I'm 34 now, I like to say 35 because it makes me look better for my age, and I have to keep a little bit of a profile so that every three years if I do put a record out, I don't have to substantiate where I've been for three years and why the silence and the sort of false mysterioso.

  

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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