Simone de Beauvoir's Profile
Brief about Simone de Beauvoir: By info that we know Simone de Beauvoir was born at 1908-01-09. And also Simone de Beauvoir is French Writer.
Some Simone de Beauvoir's quotes. Goto "Simone de Beauvoir's quotation" section for more.Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
Tags: Holiday, May, RejectionThe most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
Tags: Feels, Himself, WomenThis has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
Tags: Adequate, None, ReasonsIt 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.
Tags: Humanity, Life, SexSociety, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
Tags: Away, Society, WomanThe writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
Tags: Dead, Unless, WriterTo make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Tags: Object, Oneself, PassiveWhy one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.
Tags: Life, Why, YourselfIt is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
Tags: Age, Life, TimeChange your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Tags: Change, Future, LifeOne's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Tags: Friendship, Life, LoveI tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
Tags: Away, Love, TruthMan 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.
Tags: Human, Said, WomanNo one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Tags: Arrogant, Toward, WomenThe word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
Tags: Love, Sense, SeriousSex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
Tags: Sex, Woman, WordsAll oppression creates a state of war.
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