Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Women
  • Change
  • Marriage

• If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Man

• Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • Military
  • Soldiers

• I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Funny

• I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Women
  • Why
  • Rule

• We are not yet a society free of sexism, and this will continue to be an issue for all women candidates.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Women
  • Society
  • Free

• Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• The Congo is so fun. The ideal body type coveted by women in the Congo is this extremely curvaceous body. They're going through a number of extreme measures to get that kind of body form, and one of them is by using bouillon cubes.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Body

• I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Women
  • Better
  • Fight

• Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • People
  • Women
  • Professional

• You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Women
  • Technology

• Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Work
  • Women
  • Girl

• For me, the struggle for women's human rights began the moment I was born in Tehran at the height of the Iranian Revolution, a time when the status of women was quickly deteriorating.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • Women
  • Struggle

• It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, or a Roosevelt can feel himself to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, or a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Women
  • Trying

• There is no greater pillar of stability than a strong, free and educated woman, and there is no more inspiring role model than a man who respects and cherishes women and champions their leadership.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Men
  • Women
  • Free

• The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Always
  • Management
  • Beliefs

• A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

  

  Jean Giraudoux
  • Earth

• Only with these three kinds of creativity - technology, product planning, and marketing - can the public receive the benefit of a new technology.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Technology
  • Creativity
  • Planning

• The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Women
  • Struggle
  • Emancipation