One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIf you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRSome things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRCounselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRNo one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRSex pleasure in women 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 BEAUVOIRBecause we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne’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 BEAUVOIRThere is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRAll oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRBe loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIREthics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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