French screen legend, Brigitte Bardot, was born on the 28th of September, 1934, in Paris. She has, in different ways, and for two very different sets of beings, been a great libertarian all her life. I believe her own words prove that:
“I’m a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian ……. I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy …….. (but), have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?”
“I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.”
“It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen ………. I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals ……… I left a world in which I was a queen to enter one in which I’m a human being.”
“I am a native Frenchwoman and proud of it ……. (but)I mourn the fact that my beautiful country has deteriorated in every way ……… French courts are backward and politically correct, which is the height of stupidity ……. Only idiots refuse to change their minds ……. In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that’s what I do, even if it displeases.”
“Do you have to have a reason for loving? …….. When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life …….. My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others ……. They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.”
Bardot understood the limits of freedom.
“Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.”
But she found true love: “My favourite animals are dogs.”
Mans best friend.
And Brigitte Bardot’s.
God Bless Creation And All The Freedoms We Can Still Love.
Geoff Fox, 28th September, 2023, Hollywood Time, written Down Under
FREEDOM, DEMOKRASI AND CIVILISED HUMANITY 