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Them Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
- All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will…
- 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…
- To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare,…
- Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own…
- It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not…
- Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
- There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what…
- She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased…
- As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as…
- He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are.…
- He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each…
- I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas…
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