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
That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
One can not start by saying our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends on us to give it… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength… — 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
