Simone de Beauvoir Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• There is something false in this search for a purely feminine writing style. Language, such as it is, is inherited from a masculine society, and it contains many male prejudices. We must rid language of all that. Still, a language is not something created artificially; the proletariat can't use a different language from the bourgeoisie, even if they use it differently, even if from time to time they invent something, technical words or even a kind of worker's slang, which can be very beautiful and very rich. Women can do that as well, enrich their language, clean it up.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Beautiful, Writing, Style

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• To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not exist a mathematics which is only a women's mathematics, or a feminine science.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Insane, Doe, Would Be

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• I believe that we must use language. If it is used in a feminist perspective, with a feminist sensibility, language will find itself changed in a feminist manner. It will nonetheless be the language. You can't not use this universal instrument; you can't create an artificial language, in my opinion. But naturally, each writer must use it in his/her own way.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Believe, Perspective, Feminist

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• If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Giving, Feminist

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• I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Writing, Thinking, Want

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• You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Average, Addresses, Opinion

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