Anne Berest Quotes

#1. Yes, she'll admit that her charm is somewhat artificial. Et alors?

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#2. MANTRA: "My demand as a woman is that my difference be taken into account and that I not be forced to adapt to the male model.

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#3. She drinks vodka in the evening and green tea in the morning.

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#4. Take the time to listen and to get to know yourself. Take the time to change, to grow, to rest. Take the time to say yes, take the time to say no. Take the time to be quiet. Take the time to look after your body, to eat well. Take the time to ask yourself who you are and what you want.

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#5. Black is the color of celebration, the color of nights that never end...

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#6. She always wears her sunglasses, even when it rains.

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#7. ... [T]he letters of the alphabet (two Cs, a large D; the combination of Y, S, and L) belong on an ophthalmologist's chart. For the Parisienne, luxury should never be spelled out.

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#8. Not that she wanted to have sex with him, necessarily. Only that she was happy to acknowledge, on this late-summer evening, that he was a man and she a woman, and if he found her attractive, that was all right with her.

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#9. Take the time to take time because nobody else will do it for you.

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