Creative Quotations from . . .
Simone de Beauvoir
(1908-1986) born on
Jan 09
French writer. "She was noted for her attack on the inferior role of women in "The Second Sex," 1949."
 
   
F
The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.

R
"Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside -- from others. We do not accept it willingly."
A
"This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has seemed adequate."
N
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
K
"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."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""Les Belles Images," ch. 3, 1966."
R: ""The Coming of Age," pt. 2, ch. 5 (1970; tr. 1972)."
A: "In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997."
N: ""The Second Sex," 1953."
K: "In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."



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