More from Simone De Beauvoir

  1. One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossi…
  2. Sex pleasure in woman, as I have said, is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of car…
  3. When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior. But the significance…
  4. To 'catch' a husband is an art; to 'hold' him is a job.
  5. All agree in recognising the fact that females exist in the human species; today as always they make up about one half of humanity. And yet…
  6. The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength, each askin…
  7. In Plato, art is mystification because there is the heaven of Ideas; but in the earthly domain all glorification of the earth is true as so…
  8. All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception. The existent who is regarded as inessential cannot fail to demand the re-e…

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