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The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.
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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Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
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If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.
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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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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.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
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They [Americans] want to believe that Good and Evil can be defined in precise categories, that Good is already, or will be easily achieved. ... if this optimism appears too superficial, they will try to create a kind of anti-God: the U.S.S.R. That is Evil, and it only needs to be annihilated to re-establish the reign of Good.
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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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In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.
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Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.
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At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.
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Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.
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It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.
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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.
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If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.
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Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
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To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.
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