The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women. — 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
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
The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
One can hardly tell women that washing up saucepans is their divine mission, [so] they are told that bringing up children is… — 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
it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Women's actions have never been more than symbolic agitation; they have one only what men have been willing to concede to them;… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Women- except in abstract gatherings such as conferences- do not use "we"; men say "women," and women adopt this word to refer… — 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
“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
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
![“One can hardly tell women that washing up saucepans is their divine mission, [so] they are told that bringing up children is their divine mission. But the way things are in the world, bringing up children has a great deal in common with washing up saucepans.” quote by Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7cc/simone-de-beauvoir-407_children_one-can-hardly-tell-women-that-washing-u_983269.jpg)
