Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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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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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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The 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.
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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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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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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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