“But I’ve been reading A Very Easy Death, about Simone de Beauvoir’s mother dying of cancer – it’s just brilliant. It really… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
“One is not born a woman, one becomes one. —Simone de Beauvoir, A WOMAN’S JOURNAL” — Joan Anderson Copy Share Image
“Meantime, other “feminist bibles”had appeared, Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex being the best. Which brings me to something no one believes.… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Time for an exercise, which I shall call 'Say It Out Loud With Miranda'. Please take a moment to sit back, breathe… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life," said Simone de Beauvoir. "I want to be a woman and to be… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“You see, one of the reason why I embark on this journey is to question myself on the many myth of security… — Mislina Mustaffa Copy Share Image
Thrown into the atmosphere of action [in 1954], I suddenly understood the kind of neurosis that dominated all my previous work. I… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Maybe I’m not cut out for monogamy,” G. had said to me early on. “Maybe I should just live in a room… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
“Simone de Beauvoir believed adolescence is when girls realize that men have the power and that their only power comes from consenting… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
“In this version, scholars like Otto Rank, Viktor Frankl, and Rollo May—not to mention philosophically oriented social activists like Jean-Paul Sartre and… — Eli J. Finkel Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I never isolated myself. I was a journalist at a daily newspaper and every day I went out on… — Maria Teresa Horta Copy Share Image
“She is the woman that contradicts Simone de Beauvoir's saying "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." She is the… — Malak El Halabi Copy Share Image
“[ From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex' ] Beauvoir… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women. — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
“For a woman to be taken as seriously as a man she must be three times as effective. Happily, this is not… — Gale Martin Copy Share Image
“No one saves an e-mail, because it's so inherently impersonal. I worry about posterity in general. All the great love letters -… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Life is about more than just maintaining oneself, it is about extending oneself. Otherwise living is only not dying - SIMONE DE… — Lin Pardey Copy Share Image
One of the great weaknesses of the progressive, as distinct from the religious, mind, is that it has no awareness of truth… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words… — Bruce Jenner Copy Share Image
My teachers always said, "You're very talented, but don't set your heart on art. You're only a girl." I was inspired by… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
[Lost of the absolute] is in this sense that ''I no longer know what to do with my life" must be understood.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution… — Natalie Zemon Davis Copy Share Image
I don't think that French women are less feminist. If you look at Simone de Beauvoir, she was French and she wrote… — Stacy Martin Copy Share Image
My biggest role models are not chefs, but women like Coco Chanel, Simone de Beauvoir, Nina Simone. — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image