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Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other but for the same reason each is against the others.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Simone de Beauvoir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 9
Died: 1986
Died: April 14
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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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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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All oppression creates a state of war.
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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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Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.
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Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.
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Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.
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A man is in the right in being a man it is the woman who is in the wrong.
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