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
We belong to this earth. Now I can see the truth ... I love you on this earth of ours. Love me, do! — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“It is difficult for men to measure the enormous extent of social discrimination that seems insignificant form the outside and whose moral… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“The thing I understood least of all was that knowledge led to despair and damnation. Our spiritual mentor had not said that… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Thus we can regard the phenomenon of reproduction as founded in the very nature of being. But we must stop there. The… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“As Merleau Ponty very justly puts it, man is not a natural species: he's a historical idea. Woman is not a completed… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Woman thus emerged as the inessential who never returned to the essential, as the absolute Other, without reciprocity. All the creation myths… — 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
