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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Simone de Beauvoir

I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Myself Self Love
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Body Philosophy World
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
One’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 BEAUVOIR

Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Father Invention
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Man Philosophy
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Admire Love Necessary Self Love
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Expression Female Genius History
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Myself Poet Taste Writing
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Existence Freedom Spring Value
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Earth Myself
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Feeling Generosity Myself True
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Life Literature Place Religion

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