Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
Source: The Woman Destroyed
Source: Attributed, Poems of Sadness: The Erotic Verse of the Sixth Dalai Lama Tsangyang Gyatso tr. Paul Williams 2004, p.37
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
Source: The Woman Destroyed
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1950s, Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
Context: I look at my little daughter every day and she wants certain things and when she wants them, she wants them. And she almost cries out, “I want what I want when I want it.” She is not concerned about what I think about it or what Mrs. King thinks about it. She wants it. She’s a child and that’s very natural and normal for a child. She is inevitably self-centered because she’s a child. But when one matures, when one rises above the early years of childhood, he begins to love people for their own sake. He turns himself to higher loyalties. He gives himself to something outside of himself. He gives himself to causes that he lives for and sometimes will even die for. He comes to the point that now he can rise above his individualistic concerns, and he understands then what Jesus meant when he says, “He who finds his life shall lose it; he who loses his life for my sake, shall find it.”’ In other words, he who finds his ego shall lose his ego, but he who loseth his ego for my sake, shall find it. And so you see people who are apparently selfish; it isn’t merely an ethical issue but it is a psychological issue. They are the victims of arrested development, and they are still children. They haven’t grown up. And like a modern novelist says about one of his characters, “Edith is a little country, bounded on the east and the west, on the north and the south, by Edith.” And so many people are little countries, bounded all around by themselves and they never quite get out of themselves. And these are the persons who are victimized with arrested development.
Frances Bean Cobain (1992) American artist
Attributed to a Teen Vogue interview <br class="br">" Frances Bean Cobain: 'I'm a Different Person' http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1101912,00.html" (2005)
“I want babies too," he said huskily. "Daughters as beautiful as you are.”
Maya Banks (1964) Author
Source: Rush
Rand Paul (1963) American politician, ophthalmologist, and United States Senator from Kentucky
2015-09-16
CNN REAGAN LIBRARY DEBATE: Later Debate Full Transcript
CNN
http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2015/09/16/cnn-reagan-library-debate-later-debate-full-transcript/
2010s
Tori Amos (1963) American singer
A quote from the special inclusions in the sheet music book for her album "Under the Pink".
Songs
Ralph Peters (1952) American military officer, writer, pundit
Source: 2000s, Beyond Terror: Strategy in a Changing World (2002), p. 287
Ayelet Waldman (1964) American- Israeli writer
Salon.com column http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/04/25/limon/index1.html
“My daughter wanted a new pair of trainers. I told her "You're eleven, make your own!"”
Jeremy Hardy (1961–2019) British comedian
The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, July 2002
Duke Ellington (1899–1974) American jazz musician, composer and band leader
Nat Hentoff, At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene (2011).