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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/571/">Quotes by <em>Beauvoir, Simone De</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Simone de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 April 14, 1986) was a French author, philosopher, and feminist. The scope of her work is broad; she was a novelist, political theorist, essayist, as well as biographer and autobiographer. She is best known for her work Le Deuxime Sexe (The Second Sex, 1949) which contained detailed analysis of women's oppression. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object."

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"Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly."

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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: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time."

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"The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women."

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"When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior."

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"One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius."

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"Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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"In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men."

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"The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence."

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