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Simone De Beauvoir Quotes
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. anguished, she thought, I don't want to be just another blade of grass (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Sex pleasure in woman, as I have said, is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap heap (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
We always come back to the same vicious circle an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Few tasks are more like the torture of sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, I will always be here (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
She was beautiful, with a beauty so severe and so solitary that at first it was startling. Ah! if only there were two of me, she thought, one doing the talking and one listening, one living and one watching, how I would love myself. I'd envy no one (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Let women be provided with living strength of their own (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself... it seems unfair. you can't assume the responsibility for everything you do — or don't do (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)