“A woman's situation, i.e those meanings derived from the total context in which she comes to maturity, disposes her to apprehend her… — 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
“How could van Gogh have been born woman? A woman would not have been sent on mission to Boringe, she would not… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“In our opinion, there is no public good other than one that assures the citizens' private good; we judge institutions from the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Most feminists in France came to feminism after '68 as a result of the hypocrisy they experienced in leftist movements. In these… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Woman has ovaries and a uterus; such are the particular conditions that lock her in her subjectivity; some even say she thinks… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“We will not let ourselves be intimidated by the number and violence of attacks against women; nor be fooled by the self-serving… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It's true that this is one of the problems which often arises among my radical, revolutionary feminist friends: Do you have to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“The facts of religion were convincing only to those who were already convinced.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Feminism is a revolutionary movement which is different from the class struggle movement, the proletarian movement, but which is a movement which… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“The fact is that men encounter more complicity in their woman companions than the oppressor usually finds in the oppressed; and in… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“How could women ever have had genius when all possibility of accomplishing a work of genius - or just a work -… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I believe that we must use language. If it is used in a feminist perspective, with a feminist sensibility, language will find… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Truthfully speaking, women are dangerous, even those who aren't feminists, because there has always been a women's revolt. Only it has usually… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“In oppressing, one becomes oppressed. Men are enchained by reason of their very sovereignty; it is because they alone earn money that… — 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 proletariat could plan to massacre the whole ruling class; a fanatic Jew or black could dream of seizing the secret of… — 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 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
