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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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All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.
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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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A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.
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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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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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All oppression creates a state of war.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.
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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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