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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIf the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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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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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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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 realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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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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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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