You can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories. — 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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“In all my games, my day-dreams, and my plans for the future I never changed myself into a man; all my imagination… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“My overflowing leisure handed me the world and at the same time prevented me from seeing it. Just as the sun, filtering… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It's so easy to be mistaken about the future. Sometimes there are avant-gardes which believe themselves to be the avant-garde and which… — 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… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear, without having so… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“The people of former times [...] they're dead that's the only thing they have over the living but in their own day… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Every time I start on a new book, I am a beginner again. I doubt myself, I grow discouraged, all the work… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the… — 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
![“The people of former times [...] they're dead that's the only thing they have over the living but in their own day they were just as sickening. Picturesqueness: I don't fall for that not for one minute. Stinking filthy dirty washing cabbage-stalks what a pretentious fool you have to be to go into…” quote by Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/80b/simone-de-beauvoir-407_life_the-people-of-former-times-they-re-dead_368300.jpg)
