If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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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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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.
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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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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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All success cloaks a surrender.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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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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