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“I have to live with both my selves as best I may.”

Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist

“People are forever finding something wrong with you.”

Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist

“They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.”

Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist

“It is impossible to look young unless one is young.”

Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist

“What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.”

Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist

“Only idiots refuse to change their minds.”

Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist

“To experience the loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.”

Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist

“All these animals are put in cages, never see the sun or grass, and they leave this hell only to go to the slaughter-house. For me intensive breeding is a sign of human degeneration. If one can find that acceptable, then we humans have lost all moral value. … [How long have you been a vegetarian? ] Since 1962, when I went on French television to denounce conditions of animal slaughter. That is when I became aware of the horror of factory farming, live transports and the killings of farm animals. I have always been sensitive to animal distress but from then on I refused to be involved in such inhuman industrial deaths.”

Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist

“I accept differences of cultures in all countries. But unfortunately, cows are grown to be eaten, dogs are not. I accept that many people eat beef, but a cultured country does not allow its people to eat dogs.”

Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist

“I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous, and very unhappy.”

Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist

“Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.”

Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist

“I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.”

Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist

“I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.”

Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist

“We must live today and never regret about past, which often brings nothing but melancholy. ”

Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist

“I am no mother, and I won't be one.”

Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist

“Love is the unity of soul, mind and body. Pay attention to the precedence… ”

Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist

“To have beauty is to have only that,
but to have goodness
is to be beautiful
too.”

Sappho (-630–-570 BC) ancient Greek lyric poet

“O dream on your black wings
you come when I am sleeping.”

Sappho (-630–-570 BC) ancient Greek lyric poet

“Sweet is the god but still I am
in agony and far from my strength.”

Sappho (-630–-570 BC) ancient Greek lyric poet