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I am not at all for a feminism which is entirely separatist, which would say, this domain is purely for women. I don't believe that at all.
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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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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Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is very feminine, and by that I mean that women are supposed to be very sensitive to all the sensations of nature, much more so than men, much more contemplative. It's this quality that marks her best works.
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Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.
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There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.
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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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Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.
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Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.
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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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All oppression creates a state of war.
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To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.
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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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I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that for women he has been absolutely disastrous. And even more so, everyone who came after him.
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You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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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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I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.
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Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.
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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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