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The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.
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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La femme?sait que quand on la regarde on ne la distingue pas de son apparence: elle est juge e, respecte e, de sire e a' travers sa toilette. Woman?knows that when she is looked at she is not considered apart from her appearance: she is judged, respected, desired, by and through her toilette.
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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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One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, I will always be here.
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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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Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.
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Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.
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History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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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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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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