"Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want……" — Simone de Beauvoir
"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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206 Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir has 206 quotes on this site.
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship,…
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human…
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the…
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In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or…
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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
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In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
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All oppression creates a state of war.
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I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.
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I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't…
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything…
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I don't care much about conforming.
— Mayim Bialik
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Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those…
— David Bohm
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The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that…
— Harry Browne
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To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger…
— Steven Brust
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I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.
— Sandra Bullock
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your…
— Thomas Jefferson
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...I believe that it is not enough, as I said, to tinker at the margins of U.S. immigration law... the…
— Ronald Reagan
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Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something…
— Sun Tzu
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I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end…
— Bill Maher
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