Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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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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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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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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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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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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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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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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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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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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