One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There is something false in this search for a purely feminine writing style. Language, such as it is, is inherited from a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Can one say that there is a way of crying out, of speaking, which is properly feminine? Personally, I don't think so.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion — 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
