Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If you are writing something in which you are really involved, you don't even need to think about it any longer. The… — 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
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
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
There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true. — 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
No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If you try consciously to be avant-garde, it's a little dangerous, like the present state of modern painting, where dealers try to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de faite. If you live long enough,… — 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
I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing. — 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
It's important that you think of your relationship with the world and the way you can express that world and that you… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls… — 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
