If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRNo one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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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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Sex 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.
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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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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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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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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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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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