Simone de Beauvoir Quotes - Page 12

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• Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is very feminine, and by that I mean that women are supposed to be very sensitive to all the sensations of nature, much more so than men, much more contemplative. It's this quality that marks her best works.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sex, Writing, Mean

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

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  Feminism, Way, Attacking

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• To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not exist a mathematics which is only a women's mathematics, or a feminine science.

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  Insane, Doe, Would Be

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• The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.

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  Journey, Expectations, Crumbling

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• Buying is profound pleasure.

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  Profound, Buying, Pleasure

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• It is impossible to do anything for anyone.

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  Impossible

  "All Men are Mortal". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, p. 317, 1946.

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• it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.

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  Good Luck, Complacency, Vain

  Simone de Beauvoir (1977). “Force of circumstance”

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• Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

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  Proxy, Precarious

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• To will freedom and to will to disclose being are one and the same choice; hence, freedom takes a positive and constructive step which causes being to pass to existence in a movement which is constantly surpassed.

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  Choices, Movement, Causes

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

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  Men, Ideas, History

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• Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.

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  Writing, Worship, Trade

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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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  Men, Idols, Scary

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

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• I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down.

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  Running, Writing, Sleep

  Simone de Beauvoir (1977). “Force of circumstance”

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• Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.

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  Unique, Self, Natural

  Simone de Beauvoir (1969). “The Woman Destroyed”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

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  Being Yourself, Children, Responsibility

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

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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.

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  Children, Husband, Struggle

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• That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.

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  Class, Would Be, Normal

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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.

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  Hands, Feminist, Risk

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• There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth, because it was their domain. That's changing a little, now.

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  Children, House, Littles

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• The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.

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  Fate, Names, Humanity

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

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• There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost...I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself!

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  Lying, Reading, Writing

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• Françoise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at Xavière: she gave a start of amazement. Xavière was no longer watching, her head was lowered. Françoise barely suppressed a scream. The girl was pressing the lighted end against her skin, a bitter smile curling her lips. It was an intimate, solitary smile, like that of a half-wit; the voluptuous, tortured smile of a woman possessed of some secret pleasure.

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  Girl, Secret, Skins

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• I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more than a man, because after all, men also speak their bodies when they write. Everything is implicated in the work of a writer.

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  Writing, Men, Body

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• Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.

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  Thinking, Avant Garde, Way

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• Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much to be feminine and not feminist. And then she is so gaga before so many men. She talks about men I know in France, men who were less than nothing, and she considers them kings, extraordinary people.

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  Kings, Writing, Men

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