The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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
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
