Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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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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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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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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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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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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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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