“If the "question of women" is so trivial, it is because masculine arrogance turned it into a "quarrel"; when people quarrel, they… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“How could women ever have had genius when all possibility of accomplishing a work of genius - or just a work -… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“It is difficult for men to measure the enormous extent of social discrimination that seems insignificant form the outside and whose moral… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Feminism is a revolutionary movement which is different from the class struggle movement, the proletarian movement, but which is a movement which… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“In our opinion, there is no public good other than one that assures the citizens' private good; we judge institutions from the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“In oppressing, one becomes oppressed. Men are enchained by reason of their very sovereignty; it is because they alone earn money that… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her;… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Most feminists in France came to feminism after '68 as a result of the hypocrisy they experienced in leftist movements. In these… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I am not at all for a feminism which is entirely separatist, which would say, "this domain is purely for women." I… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It's true that this is one of the problems which often arises among my radical, revolutionary feminist friends: Do you have to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“We will not let ourselves be intimidated by the number and violence of attacks against women; nor be fooled by the self-serving… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Women- except in abstract gatherings such as conferences- do not use "we"; men say "women," and women adopt this word to refer… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Truthfully speaking, women are dangerous, even those who aren't feminists, because there has always been a women's revolt. Only it has usually… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“The man most sympathetic to women never knows her concrete situation fully. So there is no good reason to believe men when… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
“You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
“Magari mi troverai ridicola, ma mi disprezzerei se non osassi esserlo mai” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
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