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Men and women2 quotes
When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form. — Simone de Beauvoir · 1949It 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. — Simone de Beauvoir · 1949Civic duty1 quote
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude. — Simone de Beauvoir · 1960Housework and homemaking1 quote
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition... The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present. — Simone de Beauvoir · 1949Liberation1 quote
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. — Simone de Beauvoir · 1945Man and animals1 quote
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. — Simone de Beauvoir · 1949Patriarchy1 quote
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has seemed adequate. — Simone de Beauvoir · 1949Political neutrality1 quote
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude. — Simone de Beauvoir · 1960Politics1 quote
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude. — Simone de Beauvoir · 1960Society and the individual1 quote
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. — Simone de Beauvoir · 1970The individual1 quote
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. — Simone de Beauvoir · 1970Womanhood1 quote
To tell the truth, one is not born a genius: one becomes a genius. — Simone de Beauvoir · 1949Women1 quote
To tell the truth, one is not born a genius: one becomes a genius. — Simone de Beauvoir · 1949Women's equality1 quote
When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form. — Simone de Beauvoir · 1949