Simone de Beauvoir's quote

Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, commonly known as Simone de Beauvoir (French pronunciation: ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986), was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist. She did not consider herself a philosopher but had a significant influence on feminist existentialism, and feminist theory. She wrote novels, essays, biographies, an autobiography, monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues. She is best known for her novels, including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins, as well as her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism.

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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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. The Second Sex
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal. The Mandarins
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. The woman destroyed (Simone de Beauvoir / ISBN:0007204655)
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion
A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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.
That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
I am incapable of conceiving infinity and yet I do not accept finity.
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception. The Second Sex
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized. The Second Sex
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project The Second Sex
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.
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.