When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another. — 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
The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all… — 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
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
In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology,… — 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
it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into… — 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
