Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

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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.

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  Love, Life, Kindness

  Simone de Beauvoir (1975). “The Coming of Age”

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  No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

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  Men, Arrogance, Arrogant

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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  When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

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  Men, Justice, Diversity

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• To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

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  Able, You Like It, Given

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.102, Open Road Media

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  The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

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  Men, Hands, World

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• Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

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  Change, Positive, Inspirational Life

  Alice Schwarzer, Simone de Beauvoir (1984). “Simone De Beauvoir Today”, Not Avail

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• One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch, which is described as feminine.

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  Fate, Civilization, Males

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

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  Life And Love, Intelligent, Feminist

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• You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done.

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  Done, Today, Where You Are

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• I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

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  Inspirational, Truth, Comfort

  "All Said and Done". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1972.

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• Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.

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• Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

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  Trying, Oppression, Utility

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.47, Open Road Media

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• As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.

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  Long, Myth, Stills

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• Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

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  Self, Stories, Consciousness

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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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  Men, Inferiority, Males

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

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  Reality, Murder, Captives

  Simone de Beauvoir (1965). “The prime of life”

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• Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity. The evil all arose from the fact that he had increased his needs rather than limited them; . . . As long as fresh needs continued to be created, so new frustrations would come into being. When had the decline begun? The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution - not a social or political revolution - only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.

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  Country, Loss, Frustration

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les Belles Images”

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• If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

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  War, Long, Victory

  "All Men Are Mortal". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1946.

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• I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

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  Inspirational, Freedom, 4th Of July

  "Le sang des autres (The Blood of Others)". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1945.

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• Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.

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  Struggle, Love Is, Self

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized

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  Discovery, Achievement, Littles

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• Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe.

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  Two, Self, Would Be

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• I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

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  Selfish, Work, Loneliness

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• All oppression creates a state of war.

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  War, Historical, Oppression

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Witch, Has Beens

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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