Perfect Passive

Famous quotes containing the words perfect and/or passive:

    O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes,
    The poets labouring all their days
    To build a perfect beauty in rhyme
    Are overthrown by a woman’s gaze....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
    Simone De Beauvoir (1908–1986)