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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.

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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, Rejection

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

Tags: Feels, Himself, Women

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

Tags: Adequate, None, Reasons

It 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, Sex

Society, 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, Woman

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Tags: Dead, Unless, Writer

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Tags: Object, Oneself, Passive

Why 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, Yourself

It 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, Time

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

Tags: Change, Future, Life

One'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, Love

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

Tags: Freedom, Human, Life

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

Tags: Art, Husband, Job

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

Tags: Away, Love, Truth

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.

Tags: Human, Said, Woman

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

Tags: Arrogant, Toward, Women

The 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, Serious

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

Tags: Becomes, Born, Woman

Sex 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, Words

All oppression creates a state of war.

Tags: Oppression, State, War
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