Defects Quote by Simone de Beauvoir Download Open image “To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.” — Simone de Beauvoir ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defects Ifs Women
Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I think the defect actually lies with male artists. Male artists often border on idiocy, while it's important for a woman not to be… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law,… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
Being a woman is a terribly task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Society tells women that you can't be a complex human being with contradicting qualities. — Keeley Hazell Copy Share Image
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Magari mi troverai ridicola, ma mi disprezzerei se non osassi esserlo mai” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I… — Edmonia Lewis Copy Share Image
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you in legal… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The second commandment that Jesus referred to was not to love others instead of ourselves, but to love them as ourselves. Before we can… — Jim Warner Copy Share Image
![“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... [But] we accept irony through a device…” quote by Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa9/haruki-murakami-21_accepting_the-sense-of-tragedy-according-to-aristo_23796.jpg)
