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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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Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.
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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.
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I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.
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Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.
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There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth, because it was their domain. That's changing a little, now.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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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.
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The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.
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I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more than a man, because after all, men also speak their bodies when they write. Everything is implicated in the work of a writer.
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When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the division of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.
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In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.
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But I must admit I didn´t like that idea do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat - that had been the nightmare of my adolescence. If it meant going back to that, if would be just as well to turn on the gas at once. But I suppose everyone thinks of things like that: let´s turn on the gas at once. And you don´t turn it on.
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It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.
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The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle it stands for permanence and separation from the world.
Simone de Beauvoir
Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.
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