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Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility."

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.




Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself"

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.




Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "All oppression creates a state of war."

All oppression creates a state of war.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future."

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men."

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.




Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me."

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...]."

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed."

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women."

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal."

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.




Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe."

Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity."

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "Buying is a profound pleasure."

Buying is a profound pleasure.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom."

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it."

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing."

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done."

You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before."

That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day."

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war."

It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in."

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat."

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "What is an adult? A child blown up by age."

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others."

Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything."

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end."

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody."

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience."

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male."

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world."

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself."

A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude."

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity."

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying."

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body."

It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole."

The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody."

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing."

I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living."

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love."

To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth."

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes."

You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless."

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning."

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart."

Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.



Simone De Beauvoir Quotes: "Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful."

Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.