"Let women be provided with living strength of……" — Simone de Beauvoir
"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 subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished -- that of man also."
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Simone de Beauvoir
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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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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
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Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the…
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War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.
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Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice.
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The People's Liberation Army is always a fighting force. Even after countrywide victory, our army will remain a fighting force…
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Happiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness are abolished permanently. Financial affairs…
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