A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“The facts of religion were convincing only to those who were already convinced.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Given masculine norms, it is clear that women are more likely to be considered crazy - I'm not saying to be crazy. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“...modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“A woman's situation, i.e those meanings derived from the total context in which she comes to maturity, disposes her to apprehend her… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can accept an important post, on condition that it really puts you in a position to help women. Unfortunately, women… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“The validity of the cook's work is to be found only in the mouths of those at her table; she needs their… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Even when her rights are recognized abstractly, long-standing habit keeps them from being concretely manifested in customs. Economically, men and women almost… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
In 1949, I believed that social progress, the triumph of the proletariat, socialism would lead to the emancipation of women. But I… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“How could van Gogh have been born woman? A woman would not have been sent on mission to Boringe, she would not… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Woman has ovaries and a uterus; such are the particular conditions that lock her in her subjectivity; some even say she thinks… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Misogynists have often reproached intellectual women for 'letting themselves go'; but they also preach to them: if you want to be our… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I think that feminism permits women to speak among themselves, instead of simply being resentful, having personal complaints, which get them nowhere… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I believe that we must use language. If it is used in a feminist perspective, with a feminist sensibility, language will find… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“The proletariat could plan to massacre the whole ruling class; a fanatic Jew or black could dream of seizing the secret of… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“The fact is that men encounter more complicity in their woman companions than the oppressor usually finds in the oppressed; and in… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
“You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
“Magari mi troverai ridicola, ma mi disprezzerei se non osassi esserlo mai” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
