There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There is the problem of unpaid labor, such as housework, which represents millions and millions of unsalaried work hours and on which… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem. — 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 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
It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I think that feminism permits women to speak among themselves, instead of simply being resentful, having personal complaints, which get them nowhere… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Why does one exist? That's not my problem. One does exist. The thing to do is to take no notice but go… — 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
