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
Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“(…) symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like language, by the human reality…” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms...” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To will freedom and to will to disclose being are one and the same choice; hence, freedom takes a positive and constructive… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“The comradeship that welded our lives together made a superfluous mockery of any other bond we might have forged for ourselves.What, for… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Choice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Art, literature, and philosophy are attempts to found the world anew on a human freedom: that of the creator; to foster such… — 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 women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence… — 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
