No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThere’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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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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