To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRTo abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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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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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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