Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself. — 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
In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology,… — 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
…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Can one say that there is a way of crying out, of speaking, which is properly feminine? Personally, I don't think so.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking,… — 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
There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It's important that you think of your relationship with the world and the way you can express that world and that you… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
But I must admit I didn´t like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I think that feminism permits women to speak among themselves, instead of simply being resentful, having personal complaints, which get them nowhere… — 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
