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Simone de Beauvoir

Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (/də ˈboʊˌvwɑːr/ or /də ˌboʊˈvwɑːr/; French pronunciation: [simɔn də bovwaʁ] ( listen); 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.

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Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

Imposes, Law, Light, Man, Men, Weakness

A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.

Able, Condition, Existentialism, Kept, Limits, Toward

Truthfully speaking, women are dangerous, even those who aren't feminists, because there has always been a women's revolt. Only it has usually translated itself into solitary, individualist, disagreeable manifestations - the whole history of the taming of the shrew, the woman-shrew. They weren't shrews without cause.

Disagreeable, Feminist, Shrew, Shrews, Solitary, Taming

There is something false in this search for a purely feminine writing style. Language, such as it is, is inherited from a masculine society, and it contains many male prejudices. We must rid language of all that. Still, a language is not something created artificially; the proletariat can't use a different language from the bourgeoisie, even if they use it differently, even if from time to time they invent something, technical words or even a kind of worker's slang, which can be very beautiful and very rich. Women can do that as well, enrich their language, clean it up.

Beautiful, Differently, Invent, Style, Time, Writing

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

Act, Change, Gamble, Inspirational Life, Positive, Today

I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more than a man, because after all, men also speak their bodies when they write. Everything is implicated in the work of a writer.

Bodies, Body, Men, Work, Writer, Writing

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.

Capitalist, Country, Crushed, Men, Socialist, Technology

You can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde.

Avant Garde, Define, Future, Opinion

This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.

Allies, Feminist, Losing, Tricky

Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.

Thinking, Avant Garde, Way, Thought, Think, Bad

Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.

Asserted, Doe, Escape, Existence, Life, Want

--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.

Heartbreaking, Old, Sight, World

It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.

Behaving, Children, Longer, Lying, Men, Speak

Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.

Crisis, France, Literature, Mind, Nothing

Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.

Beautiful, Burnt, Has Beens, Witch, Witches

The Communists , following Hegel , speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.

Attacking, Communists, Humanity, Individuality, Monolithic, Speak

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.

Abolish, Couple, Humanity, Hypocrisy, Justice, True

Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.

Marriage, Careers, Benefits, Career, Brings

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

Book, Human, Men, Situation, Writing

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

Consciousness, Knowledge, Oneself, Self, Stories, Tells

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