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And yet we are told that femininity is in danger; we are exhorted to be women, remain women, become women. It would appear, then, that every female human being is not necessarily a woman; to be so considered she must share in that mysterious and threatened reality known as femininity. Is this attribute something secreted by the ovaries? Or is it Platonic essence, a product of the philosophic imagination? Is a rustling petticoat enough to br..
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Alone: for the first time I understood the terrible significance of that word. Alone without a witness, without anyone to speak to, without refuge. The breath in my body, the blood in my veins, all this hurly-burly in my head existed for nobody.
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solitude
loneliness
faith
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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Woman] is simply what man decrees; thus she is called "the sex," by which is meant that she appears essentially to the male as a sexual being. For him she is sex -- absolute sex, no less. She is defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with reference to her; she is incidental, the inessential as opposed to the essential. He is the Subject, he is the Absolute -- she is the Other."
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philosophy
gender
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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Nul n'est plus arrogant a l'egard des femmes, agressif ou dedaigneux, qu'un homme inquiet de sa virilite.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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The truth is, however, that when two individuals detest each other, while being unable to get along without each other, it is not of all human relations the truest and most moving, but rather the most pitiable.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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At night I would climb the steps to the Sacre-Coeur, and I would watch Paris, that futile oasis, scintillating in the wilderness of space. I would weep, because it was so beautiful, and because it was so useless.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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A woman alone always seems a little unusual; it is not true that men respect women: they respect each other through their women--wives, mistresses, "kept" women; when masculine protection no longer extends over her, woman is disarmed before a superior caste that is aggressive, sneering, or hostile. As an "erotic perversion,"
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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Lo que es seguro es que ahora es muy dificil para las mujeres asumir a un tiempo su condicion de individuo autonomo y su destino femenino; es la fuente de estas torpezas y malestares que a veces las presenta como "un sexo perdido". Y sin duda es mas comodo sufrir la esclavitud ciega que trabajar por la liberacion: los muertos tambien estan mejor adaptados a la tierra que los vivos."
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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In the old days the worst part of my depression used to be the astonishment it caused me, the scandalized way in which I fought against it. Nowadays, on the other hand, I accept it cheerfully enough, like an old familiar friend.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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sadness
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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Surviving one's own life, living on the other side of it like a spectator, is quite comfortable after all. You no longer expect anything, no longer fear anything, and every hour is like a memory.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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If you point out that they're walking in shit they scream it's you that have dirty feet.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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Men of today seem to feel more acutely than ever the paradox of their condition. They know themselves to be the supreme end to which all action should be subordinated, but the exigencies of action force them to treat one another as instruments or obstacles, as means. The more widespread their mastery of the world, the more they find themselves crushed by uncontrollable forces. Though they are masters of the atomic bomb, yet it is created on..
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paradox
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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when an individual or a group of individuals is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he or they are inferior. But the scope of the verb to be must be understood; bad faith means giving it a substantive value, when in fact it has the sense of the Hegelian dynamic: to be is to have become, to have been made as one manifests oneself. Yes, women in general are today inferior to men; that is, their situation provides them with fe..
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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Legislateurs, pretres, philosophes, ecrivains, savants se sont acharnes a demontrer que la condition subordonnee de la femme etait voulue dans le ciel et profitable a la terre.
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gender-inequality
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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The little girl's sense of secrecy that developed at prepuberty only grows in importance. She closes herself up in fierce solitude: she refuses to reveal to those around her the hidden self that she considers to be her real self and that is in fact an imaginary character: she plays at being a dancer like Tolstoy's Natasha, or a saint like Marie Leneru, or simply the singular wonder that is herself. There is still an enormous difference betw..
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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.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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L'ideal de la beaute feminine est variable; mais certaines exigences demeurent constantes; entre autres, puisque la femme est destinee a etre possedee, il faut que son corps offre les qualites inertes et passives d'un objet.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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Un amor autentico deberia de asumir la contingencia del otro, es decir, sus carencias, sus limites y su gratuidad originaria; asi no pretenderia ser una salvacion sino una relacion entre seres humanos.
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mujeres
amor
feminismo
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The comradeship that welded our lives together made a superfluous mockery of any other bond we might have forged for ourselves.What, for instance, was the point of living under the same roof when the whole world was our common property?Why fear to set great distances between us when we could never truly be parted?One single aim fired us, the urge to embrace all experience, and to bear witness concerning it ...That which bound us freed us an..
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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By the time humankind reaches the stage of writing its mythology and laws, patriarchy is definitively established: it is males who write the codes.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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The people of former times [...] they're dead that's the only thing they have over the living but in their own day they were just as sickening. Picturesqueness: I don't fall for that not for one minute. Stinking filthy dirty washing cabbage-stalks what a pretentious fool you have to be to go into such ecstasies over that! And it's the same thing everywhere all the time whether they're stuffing themselves with chips paella or pizza it's the ..
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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Mais le pire, quand on habite une prison sans barreaux, c'est qu'on n'a pas meme conscience des ecrans qui bouchent l'horizon; j'errais a travers un epais brouillard, et je le croyais transparent. Les choses qui m'echappaient, je n'en entrevoyais meme pas la presence.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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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 |
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one can never know oneself but only narrate oneself
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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jnYkhy y'zd
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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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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feminism
misogyny
gender-roles
gender
sexism
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms...
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life
love
truth
wisdom
respect
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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A woman's situation, i.e those meanings derived from the total context in which she comes to maturity, disposes her to apprehend her body not as instrument of her transcendence, but "an object destined for another." --
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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Woman has ovaries and a uterus; such are the particular conditions that lock her in her subjectivity; some even say she thinks with her hormones. Man vainly forgets that his anatomy also contains hormones and testicles. He grasps his body as a direct and normal link with the world that he believes he apprehends in all objectivity, whereas he considers woman's body an obstacle, a prison, burdened by everything that particularizes it.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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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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Simone de Beauvoir |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Les cas extremes nous attachaient, au meme titre que les nevroses et les psychoses : on y retrouvait exagerees, epurees, dotees d'un saisissant relief les attitudes et les passions des gens qu'on appelle normaux.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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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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feminism
social-justice
women
misogyny
sexism
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Simone de Beauvoir |