History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIt was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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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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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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