If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIREvery war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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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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