For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about... →
Emmanuelle Beart
It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.
If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they... →
I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she... →
Cecil Beaton
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character... →
Ann Beattie
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being... →
Simone de Beauvoir
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
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.
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.