Simone de Beauvoir föddes den January 9th1908 och dog den 14 April 1986 - and feminist. Mer info via Google eller Bing.
The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.
The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.
The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with 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
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized.
We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.
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