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To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.
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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Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
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Why does one exist? That's not my problem. One does exist. The thing to do is to take no notice but go at it on the run and to keep on going right on until you die.
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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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As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change.
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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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Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.
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A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right away, or a woman of the right or a woman of the left.
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Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.
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Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.
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I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.
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Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.
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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.
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The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.
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It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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It's important that you think of your relationship with the world and the way you can express that world and that you not be stopped if it scandalizes or embarrasses but you must not look for scandal or for the avant-garde as a thing in itself.
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