Children Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

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

“That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

“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

“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