If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThat the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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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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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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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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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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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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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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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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