It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
That 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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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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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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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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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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