It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. — 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
Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul. — 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
Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her;… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of… — 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
The human species is forever in a state of change, forever becoming. — 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
