Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for… — 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
Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied;… — 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
