Despentes Virginie Quotes & Sayings

When I was on unemployment I was not ashamed of being a social outcast. Just furious. It's the same thing for being a woman: I am not remotely ashamed of not being a hot sexy number but I am livid that - as a girl who doesn't attract men - I am constantly made to feel as if I shouldn't even be around. — Virginie Despentes

I can't imagine any director directing a screenplay of mine, because the great directors all have very personal styles, and the ones that don't are not very interesting directors. — Woody Allen

I like myself as I am, more desiring than desirable. — Virginie Despentes

The line between seduction and prostitution is very blurred, and deep down, everyone knows it. — Virginie Despentes

The joy of working with the Chicago Symphony was immeasureable. — Georg Solti

If only a horrible storm can demolish the castle of the devil, then let the storm be victorious! It is not uncommon that heaven comes after hell! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it's at. "Pro-maternity" propaganda has rarely been so extreme. They must be joking, the modern equivalent of the double constraint: "Have babies, it's wonderful, you'll feel more fulfilled and feminine than ever," but do it in a society in freefall in which waged work is a condition of social survival but guaranteed to no one, and especially not to women. Give birth in cities where accommodation is precarious, schools have surrendered the fight and children are subject to the most vicious mental assault through advertising, TV, internet, fizzy drink manufacturers and so on. Without children you will never be fulfilled as a woman, but bringing up kids in decent conditions is almost impossible. — Virginie Despentes

...the nation as a whole has no contact with reality. That is only one of the reasons why I have always been forced to exist on the fringes of its society, consigned to the Limbo reserved for those who do know reality when they see it. — John Kennedy Toole

Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find it troublesome to preserve them so as to have them easy of access; but when they do want them, they want them badly. — John Shaw Billings

The sarangi, the ney flute are pretty ancient instruments. — Howard Shore

Reading about how i live, you might assume i am some kind of psychopath, the sort of beast that must be locked away from society. But the truth is that I'm not tat different from you. Not very different at all.
And that should scare the hell out of you — Carolee Dean

My prayer is: I will be what I will be, I will do what I will do. — Hugh Prather

You take all of our pain, you are the spine. You are the blood soaked rag that holds closed the wounds in our soul. — Cedric Nye

College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families. — Barbara Mikulski

What's disappointing is that it's just another mold, you leave one cliche and end up right back in another. Not really that subversive or out of control. — Virginie Despentes

To laugh continually is to never laugh at all. For it takes the periodic sound of sorrow from which to distinguish the sound of joy. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Consuming pornography does not lead to more sex, it leads to more porn. Much like eating McDonalds everyday will accustom you to food that (although enjoyable) is essentially not food, pornography conditions the consumer to being satisfied with an impression of extreme sex rather than the real. — Virginie Despentes

All that history, the love & laughter, is designed for youth. It is what keeps the story of who we are alive from one generation to the next. It ensures our indelible mark in the souls of generations we will never have the pleasure of holding in a warm embrace. Life is short people. Before you know it, another decade will pass, people you love will be lost to this world, and all that will be left of them is what we carry in our hearts." 2011 — E.B. Loan

Whatever we do, someone is going to take the time to say it's shit. — Virginie Despentes

What relationship can you have with yourself if you systematically hand your genitals over to someone else? — Virginie Despentes