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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThat’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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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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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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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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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Sex 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.
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