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
There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages… — 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
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
He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and… — 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
