Simone de Beauvoir Quotes About Feminism

Quotes about: Feminism

• 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

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Life And Love, Intelligent, Feminist

• One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Motivational, Strong Women, Philosophy

  The Second Sex vol. 2, pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949) (translation by H. M. Parshley)

• When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Feminism, Doe, Inferiority

  "Nature of the second sex".

• Most feminists in France came to feminism after '68 as a result of the hypocrisy they experienced in leftist movements. In these movements, where everyone believed there was going to be true equality, fraternity between men and women, and that together they were going to struggle against this rotten society, even there they noticed that the leftists, the militants, kept them "in their place." Women made the coffee while the others did the talking; they were the ones who typed the letters.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Coffee, Struggle, Men

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• I think that feminism permits women to speak among themselves, instead of simply being resentful, having personal complaints, which get them nowhere and which make them sick and ill-tempered, depressive and poison the lives of their husbands and children. It's much better to arrive at a collective consciousness of this problem, which is both a kind of therapy and the basis for a struggle.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Children, Husband, Struggle

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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

  Believe, Feminism, Domain

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• I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Feminism, France

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• There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Giving Up, Feminism, Problem

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• It's true that this is one of the problems which often arises among my radical, revolutionary feminist friends: Do you have to join the system or not? On the one hand, if you don't, you risk being ineffectual. But if you do, from that moment on, you place your feminism at the service of a system which you want to take apart.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Hands, Feminist, Risk

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• Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Feminism, Way, Attacking

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• Feminism is a revolutionary movement which is different from the class struggle movement, the proletarian movement, but which is a movement which must be leftist. By that I mean at the extreme left, a movement working to overthrow the whole society.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Struggle, Mean, Class

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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