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
The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed. — 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
If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately. — 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
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
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
If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with… — 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
They [Americans] want to believe that Good and Evil can be defined in precise categories, that Good is already, or will be… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
If I were proud of anything in my life, it would be of our love. I feel we have to tell to… — 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
The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
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
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
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
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
“Magari mi troverai ridicola, ma mi disprezzerei se non osassi esserlo mai” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
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
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
![“They [Americans] want to believe that Good and Evil can be defined in precise categories, that Good is already, or will be easily achieved. ... if this optimism appears too superficial, they will try to create a kind of anti-God: the U.S.S.R. That is Evil, and it only needs to be annihilated to…” quote by Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/79b/simone-de-beauvoir-407_anti-god_they-americans-want-to-believe-that-good_3182940.jpg)
