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.
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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 BEAUVOIRIf you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRHer wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRLiterature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRA man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRSociety 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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRSex 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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRShe would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRSelf-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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