If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe 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.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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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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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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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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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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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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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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