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Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “At night I would climb the steps to the Sacre-Coeur, and I would watch Paris, that futile oasis, scintillating in the wilderness of space. I would weep, because it was so beautiful, and because it was so useless.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Why does one exist? That’s not my problem. One does exist. The thing to do is to take no notice but go at it on the run and to keep on going right on until you die.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “One is not born a woman, one becomes one.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Men’s economic privilege, their social value, the prestige of marriage, the usefulness of masculine support – all these encourage women to ardently want to please men. They are on the whole still in a state of serfdom. It follows that woman knows and chooses herself not as she exists for herself but as man defines her. She thus has to be described first as men dream of her since her being-for-men is one of the essential factors of her concrete condition.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “In a way, literature is true than life,′ he said to himself. ‘On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that’s why it’s false. But it’s damned satisfying. In life, you’re constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Everything that men have written about women should be viewed with suspicion, because they are both judge and party,’ wrote Poulain de la Barre,11 a little-known seventeenth-century feminist.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “The monologue is her form of revenge. FLAUBERT.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “The facts of religion were convincing only to those who were already convinced.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction...”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won’t change human nature.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “It’s easy to pay with the blood of others.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman’s concrete situation.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “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.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “The prostitute is the sum of all types of feminine slavery at once.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the “division” of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “We always come back to the same vicious circle – an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing – and a neater one than silence.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “I’ve done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I’ve been swindled all the same because it’s never anything more.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “This has always been a man’s world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Simonides of Amorgos says, “Women are the greatest evil God ever created: if they sometimes seem useful, they soon change into trouble for their masters.” For Hipponax: “There are but two days in life when your wife brings you joy: her wedding day and her funeral.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through “the eternal feminine,” and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question: what is a woman?”
Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.”
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