Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe. Simone de Beauvoir More Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir More Quotes From Simone de Beauvoir it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed with well-being. In fact, almost all are at odds with themselves; drink offers a remedy for this inner malady of which boredom is the most usual sign: as drinking is accepted by society, it does not appear as a sign of their [Americans'] inability to adapt themselves; it is rather the adapted form of inadaptability. Simone de Beauvoir boredom odds drinking I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance. Simone de Beauvoir detectives balance stories If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say. Simone de Beauvoir unconscious ifs If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man. Simone de Beauvoir feminist giving men I believe that we must use language. If it is used in a feminist perspective, with a feminist sensibility, language will find itself changed in a feminist manner. It will nonetheless be the language. You can't not use this universal instrument; you can't create an artificial language, in my opinion. But naturally, each writer must use it in his/her own way. Simone de Beauvoir feminist perspective believe The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain. Simone de Beauvoir unconscious showing-up certain We can reorient science - for example, a kind of medicine much more directed toward the enormous number of women's health problems which are neglected now. But the original givens of this science are the same for men and for women. Women simply have to steal the instrument; they don't have to break it, or try, a priori, to make of it something totally different. Steal it and use it for their own good. Simone de Beauvoir medicine numbers men But I must admit I didn´t like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat - that had been the nightmare of my adolescence. If it meant going back to that, if would be just as well to turn on the gas at once. But I suppose everyone thinks of things like that: let´s turn on the gas at once. And you don´t turn it on. Simone de Beauvoir would-be ideas thinking To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not exist a mathematics which is only a women's mathematics, or a feminine science. Simone de Beauvoir insane would-be doe I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair. Simone de Beauvoir despair phrases comfort All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them. Simone de Beauvoir scary idols men You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do. Simone de Beauvoir assumption assuming responsibility The renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away their spirit of revolt, of debate, of criticism, and still leave them perfectly capable of making stews or washing dishes. It's terrible, this tendency to consider women something dangerous to society. Simone de Beauvoir routine criticism use You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong. Simone de Beauvoir addresses opinion average I think that feminism permits women to speak among themselves, instead of simply being resentful, having personal complaints, which get them nowhere and which make them sick and ill-tempered, depressive and poison the lives of their husbands and children. It's much better to arrive at a collective consciousness of this problem, which is both a kind of therapy and the basis for a struggle. Simone de Beauvoir husband struggle children A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. Simone de Beauvoir writing men book To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision. Simone de Beauvoir oneself moral decision I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women. Simone de Beauvoir want writing thinking I don't want to be just another blade of grass. Simone de Beauvoir blades grass want There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future. Simone de Beauvoir justification expansion existence
