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Simone De Beauvoir Inspirational Quotes (213)

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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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To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, Ah, that's no longer feminist, is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism.
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A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right away, or a woman of the right or a woman of the left.
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One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.
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There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she will speak of it in exactly the same way as a man. But if she speaks of her own personal problems as a woman, she will obviously speak in another way.
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On ne na|t pas femme: on le devient. One is not born a woman: one becomes a woman.
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I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.
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You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done.
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Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.
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Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
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Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.
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Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.
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A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.
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I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.
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all success cloaks a surrender
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She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.
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Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project
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Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.
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The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others. He justifies his existence by a movement which, like freedom, springs from his heart but which leads outside of himself.
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Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is very feminine, and by that I mean that women are supposed to be very sensitive to all the sensations of nature, much more so than men, much more contemplative. It's this quality that marks her best works.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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