Quote of Simone de Beauvoir - No one is more arrogant toward...
Biography - Simone de Beauvoir:
French writer, intellectual and philosopher.
Born: 1908 - Died: 1986
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1908 - Died: 1986
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: France
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Translation
(French, German)
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Quotes about woman:
In fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Never forget that it will be enough for a political, economic or religious crisis for the rights of women to be called into question. These rights are never acquired. You will have to remain vigilant throughout your life.
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Within the given world, it is up to man to make the reign of freedom prevail; to carry off this supreme victory, men and women must, among other things and above and beyond their natural differentiations, affirm their brotherhood unequivocally.
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Quotes for: Contempt
The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.
The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.
Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.
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