Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

• One is not born a woman: one becomes a woman.

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• Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

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• If you live long enough, you’ll find that every victory turns into a defeat.

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• Woman…knows that when she is looked at she is not considered apart from her appearance: she is judged, respected, desired, by and through her toilette.

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• Women fond of dress are hardly ever entirely satisfied not to be seen, except among the insane; usually they want witnesses.

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• There is a good case for showing that airplanes, machines, the telephone and the radio do not make men of today happier than those of former times.

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• One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion.

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• Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

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• Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

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• 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.

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• All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.

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• Buying is a profound pleasure.

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• If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

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• One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

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• All oppression creates a state of war.

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Simone de Beauvoir (48)

Birth:	9th January, 1908
Death:	14th April, 1986
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Novelist, Philosopher, Writer

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