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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
... counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do or don’t do (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear, without having so much as a smile for the young future (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched, how I would love myself! I would envy no one (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
One can not start by saying our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends on us to give it importance (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)