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 BEAUVOIRChange your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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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.
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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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