"It is not in giving life but in……" — Simone de Beauvoir
"It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills."
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Simone de Beauvoir
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206 Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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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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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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