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Nature Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

14 Nature quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

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Simone de Beauvoir’s reflections often turn to the outdoors as a backdrop for thinking about autonomy and meaning. In these fourteen passages, she weaves the natural scene into her broader philosophical inquiries, offering a fresh angle on her timeless questions.

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Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous…

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Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

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I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.

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We belong to this earth. Now I can see the truth ... I love you on this earth of ours. Love me, do!

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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…

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It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce…

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“It is difficult for men to measure the enormous extent of social discrimination that seems insignificant form the outside and whose moral…

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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…

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There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls…

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“The thing I understood least of all was that knowledge led to despair and damnation. Our spiritual mentor had not said that…

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“As Merleau Ponty very justly puts it, man is not a natural species: he's a historical idea. Woman is not a completed…

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“Thus we can regard the phenomenon of reproduction as founded in the very nature of being. But we must stop there. The…

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The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less…

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“Woman thus emerged as the inessential who never returned to the essential, as the absolute Other, without reciprocity. All the creation myths…

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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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