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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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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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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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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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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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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