Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.
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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.
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I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
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I know it sounds old-fashioned, but I like the idea of women taking care of their men.
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Woman's soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which happens to the body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronoucedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and which is accompanied by a certain detachment.
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I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.
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I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.
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Both sexes had an unconscious investment in keeping men from expressing feelings of fear and vulnerability.
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When we train men for war, we lose some part of every man we train - even if we win the war. When we train men to be better nurturers, even men who fail the course will have won. And so will every child they ever meet. Training men to love is a nation’s best investment.
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Like the Paris riots, the struggle over French history raises grave questions for Europe. How does the presence of 20 million Muslims who come from nations where men believe their grandfathers were exploited and persecuted by Europeans advance the unity and security of Europe? How is Europe made stronger by such 'diversity'?
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When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals.
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He has told me he likes men as well as he likes women, which seems only natural, he says, since he is the offspring of two sexes as well as two races. No one is surprised he is biracial; why should they be surprised he is bisexual? This is an explanation I have never heard and cannot entirely grasp; it seems too logical for my brain.
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Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.
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I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.
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I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.
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I had a brother once, he drowned in a bathtub,before he'd ever learned how to talk.And I don't know what his name wasbut my mother does,I heard her say it once, she said,'Padraic, my prince, I have all but died from the sheer weight of my shame:you cried but no-one came.'
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When you're little, you're open to things. It's not like you get into this rehearsed zone when you're a child. At first you play different sides of yourself. And I think it will be really exciting one day to have a character to go into that's not anything like me whatsoever.
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Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.
