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Other Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from…
- 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…
- Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched,…
- The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can…
- Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be…
- The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of…
- The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -- each asking…
- It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital…
- Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
- Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.
- Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades,…
- There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
- A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?
- Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside…
- The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strengtheach asking from the…
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