"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."

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Source : Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

Simone de Beauvoir

#Age Quotes #Born Quotes

“I don't want to be immortal through my works. I want to be immortal by not dying.”
“You could make your fingers reproduce exactly what you felt, if you really worked at it. I achieved it, not only spending a lot of time at the keyboard but finding ways I could make my fingers reproduce my deepest feelings. It meant, when you hit a note with a finger, you sank into that note all the way to the bottom of the keyboard until it went pow! Right?...”
“Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.”
“Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.”

Source : Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme”, p.255
“Each person comes to have this musical experience, this moment with us, where they get to sink into our world for a little while. Itâ€™s this very unhurried world. Itâ€™s fairly quiet, itâ€™s contemplative, but it can be quite panoramic. I think people think interesting thoughts at our shows, and they go rather deeply into some personal experience of their own. Iâ€™m really proud that our music seems to connect, because itâ€™s not for everybody. But for the people that our music works for, it really gets down pretty deep in there.”
“Writing is the great skill, the creative skill. The acting is more an interpretative skill. And the thrill for me is the moment when I think of something. And then the challenge is how to get that funny idea to work in terms of the structure and that kind of thing, which is - and that's what I really love doing.”
“I was brought up on the books of The Wizard of Oz and my mother told me that these were great philosophies. It was a very simple philosophy, that everybody had a heart, that everybody had a brain, that everybody had courage. These were the gifts that are given to you when you come on this earth, and if you use them properly, you reach the pot at the end of the rainbow. And that pot of gold was a home. And home isn't just a house or an abode, its people, people who love you and that you love. That's a home.”
“I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.”

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