Simone de Beauvoir | work
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
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Simone de Beauvoir | women
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Simone de Beauvoir | truth
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
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Simone de Beauvoir | truth
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
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Simone de Beauvoir | truth
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Simone de Beauvoir | society
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male’s superiority.
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Simone de Beauvoir | power
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.
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