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Simone de Beauvoir _ The Coming of Age
one can never know oneself but only narrate oneself
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Simone de Beauvoir _ The Second Sex
Doomed to procreation and secondary tasks, stripped of her practical importance and her mystical prestige, woman becomes no more than a servant.
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Simone de Beauvoir _ Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Mais le pire, quand on habite une prison sans barreaux, c'est qu'on n'a pas même conscience des écrans qui bouchent l'horizon; j'errais à travers un épais brouillard, et je le croyais transparent. Les choses qui m'échappaient, je n'en entrevoyais même pas la présence.
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Simone de Beauvoir _ The Second Sex
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms...
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Simone de Beauvoir _ The Second Sex
Misogynists have often reproached intellectual women for 'letting themselves go'; but they also preach to them: if you want to be our equals, stop wearing makeup and polishing your nails. This advice is absurd. Precisely because the idea of femininity is artificially defined by customs and fashion, it is imposed on every woman from the outside{...}. The individual is not free to shape the idea of femininity at will.
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Simone de Beauvoir _ The Second Sex
It is difficult for men to measure the enormous extent of social discrimination that seems insignificant form the outside and whose moral and intellectual repercussions are so deep in woman that they appear to spring from an original nature. The man most sympathetic to women never knows her concrete situation fully.
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Simone de Beauvoir _ La Force De l'Age
Les cas extrêmes nous attachaient, au même titre que les névroses et les psychoses : on y retrouvait exagérées, épurées, dotées d'un saisissant relief les attitudes et les passions des gens qu'on appelle normaux.
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Simone de Beauvoir _ The Ethics of Ambiguity
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself & in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying, & human existence is indistinguishable from an absurd vegetation; a life justifies itself only if its effort to perpetuate itself is integrated into its surpassing & if this surpassing has no other limits than those which the subject assigns himself.
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Simone de Beauvoir _ The Second Sex
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Simone de Beauvoir _ The Second Sex
biology alone cannot provide an answer to the question that concerns us: why is woman the Other? The question is how, in her, nature has been taken on in the course of history; the question is what humanity has made of the human female.
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Simone de Beauvoir _ The Ethics of Ambiguity
Some men, instead of building their existence upon the indefinite unfolding of time, propose to assert it in its eternal aspect & to achieve it as an absolute. They hope, thereby, to surmount the ambiguity of their condition. Thus, many intellectuals seek their salvation in either in critical thought or creative activity.
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Simone de Beauvoir _ The Second Sex
How will the fact of being women have affected our lives? What precise opportunities have been given us, and which ones have been denied? What destiny awaits our younger sisters, and in which direction should we point them?
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