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Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Simone de Beauvoir

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: french
Birth: January 9, 1908 - April 14, 1986

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Woman Man Society She Away Being

I am certain more emergency supplemental bills will be needed before this process is concluded. In fact, there is a point I have repeated several times recently which keeps the enormity of this situation in perspective.

Perspective I Am Process Situation

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

Morning Food Me Find Three Will

I'm always thrilled when I get feedback from young people, particularly from 'The New Normal,' young gay people - when they say they want that when they grow up, that means a lot to me.

Andrew Rannells

People Me Grow Feedback Gay Young

I can usually tell when a woman is going through a divorce because they look so gaunt and tired and sad. It's just a huge sadness. It's horrible. It's like death. You mourn, but the person's still there.

Andie MacDowell

Sad Woman Death Tired Sadness Look

I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties of Virginia. My father possessed scarcely any fortune and had received a very limited education - but was a man to whom nature had been bountiful, and who had assiduously improved her gifts.

Education Nature Father Time Man

A 12-year-old can watch 'Spiderman.' A 12-year-old cannot watch 'Watchmen.'

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Watch Cannot Watchmen Spiderman

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

American Award House Rules Playing

I grew up with Bible stories, which are like fairy tales, because my father was a minister. We heard verses and prayers every day. I liked the gorier Bible stories. I did have a book of Chinese fairy tales. All the people except the elders looked like Italians. But we were not a family that had fiction books.

Family Father Day People Book Bible

I think, television and comics, what's appealing to me as a writer about both of those mediums is that they allow you to sort of let the story unfold in its own time as opposed to trying to compress it into a two-hour discreet unit of narrative.

Time Me Story Think Trying You

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

Women Courage School Poetry Me Move

I always had a fascination with music.

Music Always Fascination Had

Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies.

Tree Ocean People Climb Sharks

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