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“Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.”

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Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir was a French writer, philosopher, feminist, and social activist. Known for her profound philosophical thoughts and her advocacy for women's status, she is one of the most influential female thinkers of the 20th century. Her works spanned various genres, including novels, philosophical essays, plays, and memoirs, with her most famous work being 'The Second Sex'. more

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“We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.”

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Book:The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism

Source: The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism

“There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.”

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist for him also: mutually recognising each other as subject, each will yet remain for the other an other...when we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.”

Men Humans Whole Together Form Humanity Existence Half Subjects Bears Couple Relation Independent Slavery Refuse Deny Genuine Hypocrisy Significance Division Abolish

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.”

Ifs Knows Men World Happens Dies Natural Accidents Every Man Consent Violation Natural Death

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.”

Ifs Should Children Different Home Choices Raises Feminist Stay At Home

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.”

People Ifs Thinking Seems Empty Balls

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.”

Names Morality Abuse Errors Active Protest Excess Hints Complicity

Book:Djamila Boupacha: the story of the torture of a young Algerian girl which shocked liberal French opinion

Source: Djamila Boupacha: the story of the torture of a young Algerian girl which shocked liberal French opinion

“To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.”

Able Given You Like It

Book:The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism

Source: The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism

“A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.”

Book:The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

“A photograph is a biography of a moment.”

Moments Photograph Biographies

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