Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?

  

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• I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.

  

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• The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.

  

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• When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

  

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• Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

  

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• I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.

  

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• Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

  

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• Today is a big step in our march toward equality. Gay and lesbian couples now have the right to marry, just like anyone else. #LoveWins.

  

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• The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

  

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• The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says.

  

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• The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.

  

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• And under Obamacare, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against women. Before, some wouldn't cover women's most basic needs, like contraception and maternity care, but would still charge us up to 50 percent more than men - for a worse plan.

  

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• Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses.

  

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• It was described as Sex and the Suburbs. It's so not that. Because on Sex and the City, those women told each other everything; on our show, it's much more like the real suburbs - nobody tells anybody anything. Everything's a secret.

  

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• If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

  

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• I think the knowledge of where you come from gives you more of an affinity for understanding different cultures and learning.

  

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• A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness ...

  

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• You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

  

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• You win some, you learn some.

  

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• It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Knowledge
  • Reasons
  • Genuine