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Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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.
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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.
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
All oppression creates a state of war.
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
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