Badinter Elisabeth Quotes

#1. Liberia is not at the center of a massive geopolitical game. Afghanistan is and has always been. The history is dramatic, the politics are dramatic, the landscape is incredibly dramatic.

Tim Hetherington

#2. We must hide our tears from the One who sends them, from the One who has shed tears Himself and continues to shed them every day because of mans' ingratitude.

Pio Of Pietrelcina

#3. I am not an artist. My thread pictures look like rainbow vomit. I'm not useful.

K.F. Breene

#4. For a majority of women it remains difficult to reconcile increasingly burdensome maternal responsibilities with personal fulfillment.

Elisabeth Badinter

#5. If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also.

Homer

#6. The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.

Alan King

#7. There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.

H.G.Wells

#8. You might be a redneck if the tobacco chewers in your family aren't just men.

Jeff Foxworthy

#9. Don't let the society or your own family or anybody to kill your dreams because your dreams are yourself!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. The message is clear: a good mother breast feeds. Significantly, this good mother shares a sociocultural profile with women in other developed countries: she is over thirty, is a high earning professional, does not smoke, takes prenatal classes, and benefits from a long maternity leave.

Elisabeth Badinter

#11. The tyranny of maternal duty is not new, but it has become considerably more pronounced with the rise of naturalism, and it has thus far produced neither a matriarchy nor sexual equality, but rather a regression in women's status.

Elisabeth Badinter

#12. I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.

Margaret Atwood

#13. Are you gay, Mr. Grey?

E.L. James

#14. An unemployed father is always considered more detrimental to the family than an unemployed mother, and at the same time, child psychologists kept coming up with new responsibilities for parents that seemed to fall to the mother alone.

Elisabeth Badinter

#15. Childless people are always expected to explain themselves, although it would never occur to anyone to ask a woman why she became a mother (and to insist on getting good reasons)

Elisabeth Badinter

#16. Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.

Zora Neale Hurston

#17. I defy anyone to watch interviews with Ted Bundy and not be taken by him. He was very handsome and charming and extremely intelligent and, you know, that can exist.

Jamie Dornan

#18. Motherhood is still the great unknown. For some, it brings incomparable happiness and enriches their identity. Others manage as best they can to reconcile contradictory demands.

Elisabeth Badinter

#19. What others are doing or accomplishing is irrelevant to your growth.

Janet Gallagher Nestor

#20. In my novel, 'First Blood,' Rambo died. In the films, he lives.

David Morrell

#21. The truth is that a woman who chooses not to have children has generally engaged the question of a mother's responsibilities to a degree of seriousness not previously explored when motherhood was simply a natural necessity.

Elisabeth Badinter

#22. Increased responsibility for babies and young children has proved just as restrictive, if not more so, than sexism in the home or in the workplace.

Elisabeth Badinter

#23. Mothers with high ideals for child-rearing must pay the price for those ideals.

Elisabeth Badinter

#24. He was his own victim, his own slave. He had made personality a profession, created a career out of selling himself. And he could not stray far, or for long, from his self-made self.

Jim Thompson

#25. The realities of motherhood are often obscured by a halo of illusions. The future mother tends to fantasize about love and happiness and overlooks the other aspects of child-rearing: the exhaustion, frustration, loneliness, and even depression, with its attendant state of guilt.

Elisabeth Badinter