Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

Simone de Beauvoir

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WomanManSaidHumanSheBeing

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

John Ashbery

LifePoetryPeopleThinkViewArmy

I hate pork rinds. I couldn't imagine how anybody would ever get the idea of taking skin from a pig and frying it and then trying to sell it to people. And then people actually buy it to eat it. That is the true sign of the decline of the human race.

Joel Kinnaman

HatePeopleTryingPigSkinTrue

The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.

Melissa Bean

ResponsibilityPastPeopleAmerican

The things you're passionate about and interested in, get experience with them by going deep on projects. I would encourage science projects, plays. Pursue science, math, writing, history - the 21st century demands a lot of cross-disciplinary thinking.

Megan Smith

ScienceHistoryExperienceWriting

Eat kale sometimes, but skip it as a trend.

Anna Getty

SometimesEatTrendSkip

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.

John Philip Sousa

LeaderBelieveFeelCountryYoung

I have been a part of stage shows, but yes, I do get cold feet when I think that every move of mine will be under scrutiny!

Amruta Khanvilkar

ColdFeetThinkWillStageYes

I want to explore my boundaries. I want to push myself and go right to the edge of what I am capable of. I don't want to ever be comfortable.

Shura

MyselfI AmPushEdgeGoWant

I've been quite hyperactive since I was a child.

Roberto Firmino

ChildBeenQuiteSince

When the devil grows old he turns hermit.

Ludovico Ariosto

DevilOldGrowsHeHermitTurns

Everyone's definition of what God means can vary. But music is something that really takes you to that - 'sublime' is a great word. That thing that is greater than we are. The beauty, the magic of the universe.

Joshua Bell

BeautyMusicGodGreatUniverseYou

My next fight is always the most important fight, so regardless if I'm fighting for the title or not, I always have to go in there and give everything that I've got.

Jose Aldo

FightFightingGoImportantAlways

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