"When an individual is kept in a situation……" — Simone de Beauvoir
"When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior."
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206 Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
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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,…
- I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
- To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
- I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
- Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human…
- No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
- The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the…
- In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or…
- Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
- In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
- All oppression creates a state of war.