It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

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Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with...

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with...

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with...

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with...

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from...

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from...

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever...

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever...

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a...

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a...

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition:...

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition:...

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been...

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been...

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a...

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a...

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable...

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable...

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this...

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this...

It is easier to think of the world without a creator than of a creator...

It is easier to think of the world without a creator than of a creator...

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his...

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his...

If you could be either God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

If you could be either God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers...

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers...