Simone de Beauvoir Quotes About Culture
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When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].
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When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.
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Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly.
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Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they are completely oppressed by men; they take men at their word and believe in the gods that men have made up. The situation of women, their culture, makes them kneel more often before the gods that have been created by men than men themselves do, who know what they've done. To this extent, women will be more fanatical, whether it is for fascism or for totalitarianism.
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When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.
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A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.
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