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Simone de Beauvoir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 9
Died: 1986
Died: April 14
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Simone-Lucie-Ernestine-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
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Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
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I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
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If I were proud of anything in my life, it would be of our love. I feel we have to tell to each other as many things as we can, so we are not only lovers, but the closest of friends at the same time.
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There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it a discussion
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values. There is a problematic, a very difficult dialectic between accepting power and refusing it, accepting certain masculine values, and wanting to transform them. I think it's worth a try.
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Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
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A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.
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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.
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Old age is life's parody.
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there is a poetry in making preserves the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.
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Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.
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As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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all success cloaks a surrender
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat.
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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
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