Situation Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our…

— 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

When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

— Simone de Beauvoir

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

— Simone de Beauvoir

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming…

— 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

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

— 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

If you are writing something in which you are really involved, you don't even need to think about it any longer. The…

— Simone de Beauvoir

The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not…

— Simone de Beauvoir

In 1949, I believed that social progress, the triumph of the proletariat, socialism would lead to the emancipation of women. But I…

— Simone de Beauvoir

A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the…

— Simone de Beauvoir

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