There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
-
-
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR -
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR -
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR -
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR -
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR -
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR -
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR -
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR -
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR -
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 -
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR -
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR -
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR -
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR -
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR