In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms...” — 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
“The truth is, however, that when two individuals detest each other, while being unable to get along without each other, it is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“It is because I reject lies and running away that I am accused of pessimism; but this rejection implies hope — the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“In oppressing, one becomes oppressed. Men are enchained by reason of their very sovereignty; it is because they alone earn money that… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“I've no personality,' I would tell myself. My curiosity embraced everything; I believed in an absolute truth, in the need for moral… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“The truth is that just as - biologically - males and females are never victims of one another but both victims of… — 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
