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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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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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Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Let women be provided with living strength of their own.
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However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.
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Cooking is revolution and creation.
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Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.
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She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.
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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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In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
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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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A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?
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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.
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There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.
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Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it a discussion
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Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.
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To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.
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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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To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values. There is a problematic, a very difficult dialectic between accepting power and refusing it, accepting certain masculine values, and wanting to transform them. I think it's worth a try.
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