All Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
Simone de Beauvoir
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The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.
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Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
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When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
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