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It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.
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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I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.
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Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much to be feminine and not feminist. And then she is so gaga before so many men. She talks about men I know in France, men who were less than nothing, and she considers them kings, extraordinary people.
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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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The Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day and the angle of the light: golden as apricots from far off, when we drove close to them they turned to freshly made butter behind us they grew pink from sand to rock, the materials of which the desert was made varied as much as its tints.
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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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If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.
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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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.
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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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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.
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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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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.
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all success cloaks a surrender
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.
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She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.
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