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I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French...
JULIETTE BINOCHE Two ways to treat a girl: Make her feel as a princess Or Make her feel as a slave.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE

We make her paint her face and dance
If she won't be a slave, we say that she don't love us
JOHN LENNON

One thing I found hard to get scripted was the size of her ego. Her ego was so huge. She was about b...
HELEN MIRREN

The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and inv...
JOHN BURROUGHS They tried to treat her as a cutie pie. She wouldn't let anyone push her around.
IRENE CLURMAN Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
VICTORIA WOODHULL

The publisher has to be the moral force of the newspaper. She carried herself as a queen ... and she...
WALTER CRONKITE

I never saw her again. But even now, as an old man, I remember her as clearly as if she were standin...
MARIE LU

Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom ...
JOHN DRYDEN When I look at her from a distance, it is amazing to me what she has done. I have to catch myself wh...
CELESTE RYAN

Nothing," she said softly. "A queen must possess nothing to rule because she has to give everything ...
RICHELLE MEAD I heard her shout that she was good for 16. I told Simone I was going to hold her to it. She said, '...
BETH YOUNG I had to go hard at her ... treat her like a man. I was really up for her. I wanted to wrestle her.
JASON GRAY The queen of diamonds wears her rings A life of fortune material things The queen of hearts has a bi...
RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she didn't enj...
CHARLES ANSON I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she didn't enj...
CHARLES ANSON Woman is attracted to a man who listens, guides and connects to her mind while she is low. – Shahw...
MUHAMMAD SHAHWAN TARIQ A woman is a citizen who works for Mexico. We must not treat her differently from a man, except to h...
ADOLFO LOPEZ MATEOS

Had Queen Coral prepared a throne for her missing daughter, waiting all these years for her to come ...
TUI T. SUTHERLAND She should tell Canadians her views since anyone who is representing the Queen as head of state shou...
BERNARD LORD

There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhap...
ERICA JONG

Rowan stood with his queen in the rain, breathing in her scent, and let her steal his warmth for as ...
SARAH J. MAAS They tried to stop her, but they failed miserably. They overlooked her, tried to discourage her, and...
STEPHANIE LAHART

The queen smiled as she lay her head upon the pillow. When I kissed her cheek, I could taste the ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why is it”—she shivered as he kissed the top of her spine, went lower—“that I always end up ...
NALINI SINGH We continually court Mother Nature because of her beauty, she leaves us a lasting impression, theref...
JANET FULAY A Black Queen knows that her beauty is just a bonus. She is far more beautiful than the eyes can see...
STEPHANIE LAHART Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properl...
PRINCE ANDREW She plays with her emotions on her sleeve, she's going to yell every once in a while. But her being ...
MARQUETTE BURGESS When I was 17, I was at La Coupole brasserie, and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir asked me t...
JERRY HALL She believed it was her obligation to pay off (the debt), ... She was essentially a sex slave for th...
JEANINE PIRRO Hayworth's marriage made her a princess, but her feet made her a queen.
EDW. C. YOUNG Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonize...
THOMAS HARDY Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat...
GLORIA STEINEM Fate wrote her [Queen Caroline] a most tremendous tragedy, and she played it in tights.
MAX BEERBOHM Rosa Parks was known as the queen mother of the movement. She sat down so that her people could stan...
JOSEPH LOWERY I am no slave. This is my city! "
Lada snorted. "And I am the queen of Byzantium." She turned o...
KIERSTEN WHITE She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making ...
PAULO COELHO A man who stands in front of a woman does nothing more that block her view. She needs a man standing...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS She is a stranger to most Germans. Many East Germans think of her as a West German, while West Germa...
GERD LANGGUTH Lord St. Vincent sees to it that his wife is dressed like a queen. I'll tell thee summat: if she wan...
LISA KLEYPAS A woman is so selfish that in order to safeguard her vested-interest and secure high position, she m...
ANUJ SOMANY She is a playmaker. At halftime, she told her teammates to follow her and she would lead us back. We...
STEVE HOLLOWAY Besides her family, the only other permanent part of her life was with her friends online. She could...
STEVAN V. NIKOLIC A REAL man, the kind of man a woman wants to give her life to, is one who will respect her dignity, ...
LESLIE LUDY You forget that when a woman finds a good man, a man who loves her and makes her happy, she doesn’...
SYLVAIN REYNARD She grew tired of shielding her body,
For societal expectation and propriety,
Double stand...
JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve ...
JOHN BURROUGHS She gets a man who will love her completely and faithfully. She gets a man who will not only save he...
QUINN LOFTIS She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way...
EMILY POST Music made her feel as if she were holding a lamp that cast a halo of light around her, and while sh...
MARIE RUTKOSKI The board says I didn't treat her early enough and I didn't transfer her early enough. I did recogni...
GEORGE HSU A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated...
ELINOR GLYN Adrian had always found it amusing that a guy could be drilling Stacia up her ass while she consider...
JESS C. SCOTT A queen who owned her body, her life, her destiny, and never apologized for it.
SARAH J. MAAS She had a very difficult life. Her mother gave her away when she was little, and the man who took he...
BERNARDO BATIZ A woman can spend her day cleaning the floors so her house can look presentable. A man that she love...
MARLENE M. CHAVEZ I saw her, once.

“She passed through our village, through fields littered with dead sol...
MARIE LU She is a little bit dramatic when she wins and it takes her a while to get to the net,
LINDSAY DAVENPORT She needed to strengthen her upper body -- because she is going to be using a wheelchair for quite a...
BETH COLLIER Slave labor,” said Hermione, breathing hard through her nose. “That’s what made this dinner. S...
J.K. ROWLING The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard no...
LEWIS CARROLL Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat...
GLORIA STEINEM Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any t...
E. F. BENSON Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat...
GLORIA STEINEM This did not in any way alter her intention of accomplishing her mission; on the contrary; it seemed...
JANE BOWLES She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart. The old man on the bench, for example, ...
JERRY SPINELLI Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
AMY BLOOM I was surprised to find that the queen is actually a very friendly person. I felt very relaxed aroun...
ALVINA TAN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS As they start the wedding, Belle is really torn between her loyalties to her child, and fighting for...
MARTHA MADISON The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, he...
PHILLIP NOYCE The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees le...
ZANE GREY For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can w...
ANDREA DWORKIN The Queen is coming to reclaim her girls.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes lat...
JULIAN FELLOWES I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL I desire Virtue, though I love her not-
I have no faith in her when she is got:
I fear that sh...
ANNA WICKHAM She had me in stitches most of the time, while commiserating over the 'joys' of operating a theater....
JULANE SULLIVAN The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
AYN RAND A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to wh...
ALMA GLUCK When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her ...
JASON EVERT There's a couple real pieces that sort of shine. 'Queen Owl' by Dana Carlson, the most established a...
FAYTHE LEVINE Saddest thing to know when a woman needs a man desperate enough that she is willing to throw her bod...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or h...
A.J. JACOBS A beauty queen will lose her looks, but her inner beauty will last indefinitely.
PETER SAYSOMPHANE I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave...
SUE MONK KIDD As she was speaking in a loud voice, I came out of my room and listened to her. She told me about wh...
DATUK MICHAEL CHONG I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmet...
YVETTE NICOLE BROWN Her beads while she numbered, The baby still slumbered, And smile in her face, as she bended h...
SAMUEL LOVER A queen could leave her throne.
But a mother never leaves her son.
V.E. SCHWAB Every woman should marry for her own advantage since her husband will represent her, as visible as h...
PHILIPPA GREGORY But then she discovered the beauty college. Everybody treats her like a queen and she loves going th...
JOY LARSON Red's had her day. It's time to give pink a go.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be ...
PAUL MCCARTNEY She closed her eyes and held all her dreams between her fingers like a dandelion and just blew it. S...
AKSHAY VASU Her complexity is a glorious fire that consumes, while her simplicity goes unapproachable. But if on...
ANTHONY LICCIONE Now she carries parts. The customers love her. She had it down pat in one week. When she hears the p...
JENNIFER MCKINNON

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SIMONE WEIL What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to li...
SIMONE WEIL Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. ...
SIMONE WEIL The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
SIMONE WEIL In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below begg...
SIMONE WEIL Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
SIMONE WEIL In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
SIMONE WEIL Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people tog...
SIMONE SIGNORET Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both....
SIMONE WEIL We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an ima...
SIMONE WEIL In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been a...
SIMONE WEIL Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train ma...
SIMONE WEIL Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
SIMONE WEIL Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
SIMONE WEIL Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa."
"What does it mean?"
"You're ...
SIMONE ELKELES Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze.
"Yeah," I say.
"Why?"
I gi...
SIMONE ELKELES We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am sufferi...
SIMONE WEIL The reason I want you to put a shirt on is, well, because, um..."
"You've never seen a guy wit...
SIMONE ELKELES Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one but they think each others stink.
SIMONE ELKELES When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door...
SIMONE WEIL A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being d...
SIMONE WEIL As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to t...
SIMONE WEIL But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.
SIMONE ELKELES I give her the only honest and true answer I have.
"You're where I want to be.
SIMONE ELKELES dear kiara,
The women in the shop told me that yellow rose represents friendship and red rose ...
SIMONE ELKELES Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case...
SIMONE WEIL To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to...
SIMONE WEIL Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
SIMONE WEIL There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying ...
SIMONE WEIL Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
SIMONE WEIL There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the...
SIMONE WEIL I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
SIMONE WEIL The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their i...
SIMONE WEIL Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
SIMONE SIGNORET The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
SIMONE WEIL Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
SIMONE WEIL The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is m...
SIMONE WEIL It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time...
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...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

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