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Human Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
- Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to…
- In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human…
- When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.
- 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…
- A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.
- Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.
- To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have…
- The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways;…
- 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.
- The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.
- The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the…
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