Men Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

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

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

— Simone de Beauvoir

A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the…

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

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

Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from…

— Simone de Beauvoir

It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view,…

— Simone de Beauvoir

One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics…

— Simone de Beauvoir

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much…

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is…

— Simone de Beauvoir

We can reorient science - for example, a kind of medicine much more directed toward the enormous number of women's health problems…

— Simone de Beauvoir

There are jobs that can be done equally well by men or by women and that finally you can't see a difference.…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Most feminists in France came to feminism after '68 as a result of the hypocrisy they experienced in leftist movements. In these…

— Simone de Beauvoir

In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than…

— Simone de Beauvoir

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are…

— Simone de Beauvoir

If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.

— Simone de Beauvoir

A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

— Simone de Beauvoir

The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

— Simone de Beauvoir

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into…

— Simone de Beauvoir

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to…

— Simone de Beauvoir

It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can…

— Simone de Beauvoir

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