Simone De Beauvoir Quotes
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I never make the same mistake twice. I make it five or six times, just to be sure - Funny Quotes
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work - Fail Quotes
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Text 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)
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself (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)
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation (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)
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)
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male (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)
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)
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)
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Why one man rather than another? it was odd. you find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living (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)
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)
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)
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)
If I had amnesia, i'd be almost like other men. Perhaps i'd even be able to love you (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)
It was as though some stubborn god spent their time in an immutable and absurd balancing act between life and death, prosperity and poverty (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
What has value in their eyes is never what is done for them; it's what they do for themselves (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 is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Since it is the other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside — from others. We do not accept it willingly (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
She appears essentially to the male as a sexual being.... She is defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with reference to her; she is the incidental, the inessential as opposed to the essential. He is the Subject, he is the Absolute—she is the Other (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature (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)