Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws. Simone de Beauvoir More Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir More Quotes From Simone de Beauvoir Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman. Simone de Beauvoir oppression christian littles Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth. Simone de Beauvoir philosopher earth heaven Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men. Simone de Beauvoir addresses doe men Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it. Simone de Beauvoir fighting guarantees self Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. Simone de Beauvoir males inspiring men The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them. Simone de Beauvoir women mean sex The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project Simone de Beauvoir projects body world Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it's exigencies. Simone de Beauvoir men children firsts One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. Simone de Beauvoir becoming genius impossible Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself. Simone de Beauvoir consciousness self stories She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust. Simone de Beauvoir one-day dust fall Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice. Simone de Beauvoir injustice done justice Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization. Simone de Beauvoir silence age civilization The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways; but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being. Simone de Beauvoir independence women today Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as well as men's literature. I would say that women have been hindered from creating for a variety of reasons, as Virginia Woolf so admirably explained in A Room of One's Own. When they have created, on the whole they have been recognized. In literature it hasn't been nearly as oppressive as in, say, painting, where even the existence of so many women painters has always been denied. Simone de Beauvoir virginia creating men ...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen. Simone de Beauvoir slave queens men I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that for women he has been absolutely disastrous. And even more so, everyone who came after him. Simone de Beauvoir rich admire thinking The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle. Simone de Beauvoir independent struggle class There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience. Simone de Beauvoir conscience The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change. Simone de Beauvoir mechanism ballots boxes
