Simone de Beauvoir

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mai 2011

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“All oppression creates a state of war.” —Simone de Beauvoir
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“Se um só homem puder ser considerado como resíduo, cem mil homens juntos serão um monte de lixo.” —Simone de Beauvoir
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“Now, what peculiarly signalises the situation of woman is that she – a free and autonomous being like all human creatures – nevertheless finds herself living in a world where men compel her to assume the status of the Other. They propose to stabilise her as object and to doom her to immanence since her transcendence is to be overshadowed and for ever transcended by another ego (conscience) which is essential and sovereign. The drama of woman lies in this conflict between the fundamental aspirations of every subject (ego) – who always regards the self as the essential and the compulsions of a situation in which she is the inessential. How can a human being in woman’s situation attain fulfilment? What roads are open to her? Which are blocked? How can independence be recovered in a state of dependency? What circumstances limit woman’s liberty and how can they be overcome? These are the fundamental questions on which I would fain throw some light. This means that I am interested in the fortunes of the individual as defined not in terms of happiness but in terms of liberty.” —Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
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“If the little girl were brought up from the first with the same demands and rewards, the same severity and the same freedom, as her brothers, taking part in the same studies, the same games, promised the same future, surrounded with women and men who seemed to her undoubted equals, the meanings of the castration complex and of the Oedipus complex would be profoundly modified. Assuming on the same basis as the father the material and moral responsibility of the couple, the mother would enjoy the same lasting prestige; the child would perceive around her an androgynous world and not a masculine world.” —Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
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“Quelle ardeur de vie dans vos deux lettres! Vous me faites presque peur, la peur qu’on a devant une belle auto lancée à pleine vitesse en imaginant un instant ce qui arriverait si le moindre boulon venait à lâcher. Je comprends bien cette joie totale d’exister, bien que je ne l’éprouve jamais que passagèrement; très vite je vois le but de cette course, cela n’enlève pas pour moi leur prix aux choses, cela m’empêche de m’y abandonner complètement : que sert à l’homme de gagner l’univers ?… C’est toujours cela qui revient. Mais ne croyez pas que je veuille maintenant diminuer votre bonheur, j’y prends au contraire une part si grande qu’après avoir lu votre lettre je suis prise, moi aussi, par la douceur de la vie, même par un certain désir d’être plus activement heureuse que je ne suis, de donner, de recevoir, d’agir, d’aimer, de vivre.” —Elisabeth “Zaza” Lacoin. Lettre à Simone de Beauvoir. (via giuliettadeglispiriti)
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“Apenas minhas relações com Castor escapam ao absurdo da morte porque elas são perfeitas e, em cada instante, tudo o que elas podem ser. Minha única expectativa é que elas continuem indefinidamente. Mas, em suma, nesta altura e posicionando-se do ponto de vista da morte imediata, posso dizer que é a única coisa bem-sucedida da minha vida.” —Jean-Paul Sartre sobre sua Castor, Simone, no Diário de uma guerra estranha
May 28, 2011
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“É tão espantoso ser a gente mesma, justamente a gente mesma, é tão radicalmente único que se tem dificuldade em persuadir-se de que essa singularidade se encontra em todo mundo e de que a gente participa das estatísticas.” —Simone de Beauvoir, A Força da Idade
May 27, 2011
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“I became a revolutionary because I understood that it is not someone against whom we must rebel, but a state, a system, which must be overthrown.” —Jean-Paul Sartre - Talking with Sartre: Conversations and Debates (via jeanpaulsartre)
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“Al querer la libertad descubrimos que ella depende enteramente de la libertad de los demás.” —Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Há certo desprezo odiento da gente pobre que é uma atitude pré-fascista.” — Simone de Beauvoir
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“Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.” —Simone de Beauvoir (via existentialistaesthetics)
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“The category of the Other is as primordial as consciousness itself. In the most primitive societies, in the most ancient mythologies, one finds the expression of a duality – that of the Self and the Other. This duality was not originally attached to the division of the sexes; it was not dependent upon any empirical facts. It is revealed in such works as that of Granet on Chinese thought and those of Dumézil on the East Indies and Rome. The feminine element was at first no more involved in such pairs as Varuna-Mitra, Uranus-Zeus, Sun-Moon, and Day-Night than it was in the contrasts between Good and Evil, lucky and unlucky auspices, right and left, God and Lucifer. Otherness is a fundamental category of human thought.” —Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex.
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“Freedom is total and infinite, which does not mean that it has no limits but that it never encounters them.” —Jean-Paul Sartre (via benevolentsociopathy)
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“A presença no mundo implica rigorosamente a posição de um corpo que seja a um tempo uma coisa do mundo e um ponto de vista sobre esse mundo: mas não se exige que esse corpo possua tal ou qual estrutura particular.” —Simone de Beauvoir, O Segundo Sexo
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“Ninguém nasce mulher: torna-se mulher. Nenhum destino biológico, psíquico, econômico define a forma que a fêmea humana assume no seio da sociedade; é o conjunto da civilização que elabora esse produto intermediário entre o macho e o castrado que qualificam de feminino. Somente a mediação de outrem pode constituir um indivíduo como um Outro. Enquanto existe para si, a criança não pode apreender-se como sexualmente diferenciada. Entre meninas e meninos, o corpo é, primeiramente, a irradiação de uma subjetividade, o instrumento que efetua a compreensão do mundo: é através dos olhos, das mãos e não das partes sexuais que apreendem o universo.” —Simone de Beauvoir, O Segundo Sexo
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Por razões que expus precisamente em ‘O Segundo Sexo’, as mulheres, mais do que os homens, experimentam a necessidade de um céu por cima da cabeça; não lhes deram essa têmpera que faz os aventureiros, no sentido que Freud dá à palavra; elas hesitam em discutir a fundo o mundo, como hesitam também em aceitá-lo. (…) Viu-se entretanto que eu atribuía pouca importância às condições reais de minha vida: nada travava a minha vontade, pensava. Não negava a minha feminilidade; não a assumia tampouco. Não pensava nela. Tinha as mesmas liberdades e as mesmas responsabilidades que os homens. A maldição que pesa sobre a maior parte das mulheres – a dependência – foi-me poupada. Ganhar a vida não é em si um fim, mas somente assim se alcança uma sólida autonomia interior. (…)

Sei hoje que, para me descrever, devo dizer primeiramente: “Sou uma mulher”; mas minha feminilidade não constituiu para mim nem um incômodo nem um álibi.

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—Simone de Beauvoir, em A Força da Idade
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“…é absurdo censurar a uma obra o fato de representar alguma coisa; mas há grande diferença entre significar e demonstrar; a existência é sempre significante ainda que nunca prove coisa alguma; o objetivo do escritor consiste em mostrá-la recriando-a com palavras; ele a trai, ele a empobrece se não lhe respeita a ambiguidade.” —Simone de Beauvoir em A Força da Idade
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it. Psychiatrists have told me that they give The Second Sex to their women patients to read, and not merely to intellectual women but to lower-middle-class women, to office workers and women working in factories. ‘Your book was a great help to me. Your book saved me,’ are the words I have read in letters from women of all ages and all walks of life.

If my book has helped women, it is because it expressed them, and they in their turn gave it its truth. Thanks to them, it is no longer a matter for scandal and concern. During these last ten years the myths that men created have crumbled, and many women writers have gone beyond me and have been far more daring than I. Too many of them for my taste take sexuality as their only theme; but at least when they write about it they now present themselves as the eye-that-looks, as subject, consciousness, freedom.

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—Simone de Beauvoir about The Second Sex, published in May 24, 1949. In: Force of Circumstances (1963)
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62 anos de 'O Segundo Sexo'

Hoje, O Segundo Sexo, de Simone de Beauvoir, completa 62 anos. Primeira edição do Volume 1: 24 de maio de 1949.

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“A feminist, whether she calls herself leftist or not, is a leftist by definition. She is struggling for total equality, for the right to be as important, as relevant, as any man. Therefore, embodied in her revolt for sexual equality is the demand for class equality. In a society where the male can be the mother, where, say, to push the argument on values so it becomes clear, the so-called “female intuition” is as important as the “male’s knowledge” – to use today’s absurd language – where to be gentle or soft is better than to be hard and tough, in other words, in a society where each person’s experiences are equivalent to any other, you have automatically set up equality, which means economic and political equality and much more. Thus, the sex struggle embodies the class struggle, but the class struggle does not embody the sex struggle. Feminists are, therefore, genuine leftists. In fact, they are to the left of what we now traditionally call the political left.” —Simone de Beauvoir interview for John Gerassi published in Society magazine, Jan-Feb, 1976.
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“If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.” —Jean-Paul Sartre (via jeanpaulsartre)
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“I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary” —Dirty Hands - Jean Paul Sartre (via jeanpaulsartre)
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“Eu não acredito que existam qualidades, valores, modos de vida especificamente femininos: seria admitir a existência de uma natureza feminina, quer dizer, aderir a um mito inventado pelos homens para prender as mulheres na sua condição de oprimidas. Não se trata para a mulher de se afirmar como mulher, mas de tornar-se ser humano na sua integridade.” —Simone de Beauvoir, Balanço Final
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“No hay muerte natural: nada de lo que ocurre al hombre es natural porque su presencia pone el mundo en tela de juicio. Todos los hombres son mortales pero para cada hombre su muerte es un accidente e, incluso si lo conoce y consiente, una violencia inusitada.” —Simone de Beauvoir, Una muerte tan dulce (via desconfianza)
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“A existência é sempre significante ainda que nunca prova coisa alguma. O objetivo do escritor consiste em mostrá-la recriando-a com palavras.Ele a trai, ele a empobrece se não lhe respeita a ambiguidade.” —Simone de Beauvoir, A Força da Idade
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“God is absence. God is the solitude of man.” —Jean-Paul Sartre (via jeanpaulsartre)
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