Simone de Beauvoir Quotes on Nature
Simone de Beauvoir was a 20th-century French philosopher, writer, and political activist, a central figure of post-war French existentialism and a foundational thinker of modern feminist philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Simone de Beauvoir on the topic of nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
On ne naît pas femme: on le devient. -
Attributed to Simone de Beauvoir:
“To lose confidence in one's body is to lose confidence in oneself.”
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“On Mao Zedong , in The Long March . World Publishing Company. 1958. p. 427.”
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“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.”
Il n'y a pas de mort naturelle: rien de ce qui arrive à l'homme n'est jamais naturel puisque sa présence met le monde en question. Tous les hommes sont mortels: mais pour chaque homme sa mort est un accident et, même s'il la connaît et y consent, une violence indue.