Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRFathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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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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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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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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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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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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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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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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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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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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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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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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