That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to 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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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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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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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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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 success cloaks a surrender.
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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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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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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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