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Simone de Beauvoir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 9
Died: 1986
Died: April 14
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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.
Simone de Beauvoir
from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest.
Simone de Beauvoir
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
Simone de Beauvoir
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
Simone de Beauvoir
Let women be provided with living strength of their own.
Simone de Beauvoir
Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.
Simone de Beauvoir
Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.
Simone de Beauvoir
On ne na|t pas femme: on le devient. One is not born a woman: one becomes a woman.
Simone de Beauvoir
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.
Simone de Beauvoir
It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age' the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.
Simone de Beauvoir
At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.
Simone de Beauvoir
All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.
Simone de Beauvoir
Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.
Simone de Beauvoir
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
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.
Simone de Beauvoir
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Simone de Beauvoir
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
Simone de Beauvoir
The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.
Simone de Beauvoir
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
Simone de Beauvoir
One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.
Simone de Beauvoir
