Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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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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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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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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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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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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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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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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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.
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