Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the… — 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
Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much… — 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… — 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
Ce n'est gue' re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente" tement une foi entie' re en des regards… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It's true that this is one of the problems which often arises among my radical, revolutionary feminist friends: Do you have to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of… — 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
As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
They [Americans] want to believe that Good and Evil can be defined in precise categories, that Good is already, or will be… — 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
![“They [Americans] want to believe that Good and Evil can be defined in precise categories, that Good is already, or will be easily achieved. ... if this optimism appears too superficial, they will try to create a kind of anti-God: the U.S.S.R. That is Evil, and it only needs to be annihilated to…” quote by Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/79b/simone-de-beauvoir-407_anti-god_they-americans-want-to-believe-that-good_3182940.jpg)
