“That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.” — 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
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under… — 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
No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have… — 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
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
It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an… — 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
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strengtheach… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Enforced maternity brings into the world wretched infants, whom their parents will be unable to support and who will become the victims… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Forced motherhood results in bringing miserable children into the world, children whose parents cannot feed them, who become victims of public assistance… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“In fact, the sickness I was suffering from was that I had been driven out of the paradise of childhood and had… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Magari mi troverai ridicola, ma mi disprezzerei se non osassi esserlo mai” — 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 curse it… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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