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Individual Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

13 Individual quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

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Simone de Beauvoir’s 13 statements explore the individual’s quest for authenticity against the backdrop of gendered expectations. Her existential feminist lens invites readers to reflect on personal choice, responsibility, and the social constructs that shape identity.

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Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.

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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

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

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When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

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“A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a…

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength…

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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…

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If you are writing something in which you are really involved, you don't even need to think about it any longer. The…

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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter…

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However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social…

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The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and…

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strengtheach…

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Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and…

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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

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“You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.”

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“Ženama se ne rađamo, nego postajemo”

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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

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However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because…

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In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and…

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

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“Magari mi troverai ridicola, ma mi disprezzerei se non osassi esserlo mai”

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from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it…

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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…

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“I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things”

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“But I miss you to the point of anguish.”

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