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
Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard… — 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 state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely. — 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
