That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIf you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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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.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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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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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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