Brigitte Macron Quotes

The label 'wife of the prime minister' is like a giant signboard pointing at my head from a Monty Python sketch. But I am not Mrs. Prime Minister. I'm a human being.

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

When you become first lady, it's like, 'O.K., now what do you do?'

I don't know if I'm 'normal.'

In life, we are told to do or be so many different things and expected to fit so many different expectations; I think that's something I always had a hard time with.

Queer is about intense questioning that can't be made nice and glossy.

I am feeling fine. I remember these words and recite them. These are the things you say when asked how you are. After all, it would be odd to say: I'm not feeling. Or, more to the point: I'm not, I have ceased to be. Where am I?

Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted. I think a lot of women are contained within the parentheses of shoulds and role-play. It's all about entitlement and history. It's all about upper-body strength - and exacting your will.

Am I lost or just less found?

I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book

Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.

Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.

You may be a lady but you are still the man!

Don't try to teach men how to do anything in public. They can learn in private; in public they have to know.

You think you know me, but I'm not sure that even I know who I am anymore.

I hear so many things about who I am supposed to be I hardly know what to believe. I am willing to tell all, but what Is it? Doubtless all these myths and legends will be straightened out eventually, but It may take years.

I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.

I'm not really sure of anything. I have no personality or opinion on anything. I just sort of float around and lie to my dog.

Sometimes I feel kind of wrong here. I used to be normal, but now... I don't know. I feel like I should be one way, but I'm not." Toby stared at her. "I hear that." He sighed. "There are all these perfect people here. And... it's like, if you're not one of the,. then you're messed up. But I think, inside, the flawless-looking people are just as messed up as we are.

I actually didn't enjoy being a child particularly at all even though I had nice parents in a comfortable place to live. Just because I was too confused in generating too many answers for myself that just scared me more.

I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing.

She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.

When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all.

I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.

Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I. Don Juan Matus