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
I think that The Second Sex will seem an old, dated book, after a while. But nonetheless, a book which will have… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has… — 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
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
“Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the… — 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
