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 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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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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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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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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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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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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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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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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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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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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