--- title: "16 Want Quotes By Simone de Beauvoir" description: "16 Want quotes by Simone de Beauvoir. Plus more from Simone de Beauvoir and more Want sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4d/simone-de-beauvoir-407_blades_i-don-t-want-to-be-just-another-blade-of_2196054.jpg" --- > [I don't want to be just another blade of grass.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/i-don-t-want-to-be-just-another-blade-of-grass/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4d/simone-de-beauvoir-407_blades_i-don-t-want-to-be-just-another-blade-of_2196054.jpg) > [As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/as-soon-as-a-woman-re-fuses-to-be-perfectly-happy-doing-housework/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/630/simone-de-beauvoir-407_eight_as-soon-as-a-woman-re-fuses-to-be-perfec_2536137.jpg) > [He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/he-reflected-i-know-a-lot-of-different-kids-of-people-what-i-want-is/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/817/simone-de-beauvoir-407_different_he-reflected-i-know-a-lot-of-different-k_1428209.jpg) > [I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/i-think-it-s-wrong-to-write-in-a-totally-esoteric-language-when-you/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a1/simone-de-beauvoir-407_esoteric_i-think-it-s-wrong-to-write-in-a-totally_3109985.jpg) > [I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/i-am-incapable-of-conceiving-infinity-and-yet-i-do-not-accept-finity-2/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57d/simone-de-beauvoir-407_accepting_i-am-incapable-of-conceiving-infinity-an_2867858.jpg) > [Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/existence-must-be-asserted-in-the-present-if-one-does-not-want-all/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/adf/simone-de-beauvoir-407_defined_existence-must-be-asserted-in-the-presen_175869.jpg) > [Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/fathers-never-have-exactly-the-daughters-they-want-because-they/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfe/simone-de-beauvoir-407_conform_fathers-never-have-exactly-the-daughters_54559.jpg) > [If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/if-you-are-truly-on-the-left-if-you-reject-ideas-of-power-and/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/398/simone-de-beauvoir-407_equality_if-you-are-truly-on-the-left-if-you-reje_2399518.jpg) > [Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/anais-nin-shows-an-occasional-grace-in-writing-but-her-work-is-quite/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/070/simone-de-beauvoir-407_extraordinary_anais-nin-shows-an-occasional-grace-in-w_722945.jpg) > [Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/insects-were-scurrying-about-in-the-shade-cast-by-the-grass-and-the/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eea/simone-de-beauvoir-407_blades_insects-were-scurrying-about-in-the-shad_3220125.jpg) > [Can one say that there is a way of crying out, of speaking, which is properly feminine? Personally, I don't think so.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/can-one-say-that-there-is-a-way-of-crying-out-of-speaking-which-is/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88d/simone-de-beauvoir-407_another-way_can-one-say-that-there-is-a-way-of-cryin_1048863.jpg) > [The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/the-time-that-one-gains-cannot-be-accumulated-in-a-storehouse-it-is/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9a/simone-de-beauvoir-407_airplane_the-time-that-one-gains-cannot-be-accumu_585.jpg) > [It's true that this is one of the problems which often arises among my radical, revolutionary feminist friends: Do you have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/it-s-true-that-this-is-one-of-the-problems-which-often-arises-among/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/985/simone-de-beauvoir-407_arise_it-s-true-that-this-is-one-of-the-proble_934193.jpg) > [I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/i-am-awfully-greedy-i-want-everything-from-life-i-want-to-be-a-woman/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93a/simone-de-beauvoir-407_being-selfish_i-am-awfully-greedy-i-want-everything-fr_95724.jpg) > [ They \[Americans\] want to believe that Good and Evil can be defined in precise categories, that Good is already, or will be… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/they-americans-want-to-believe-that-good-and-evil-can-be-defined-in/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/79b/simone-de-beauvoir-407_anti-god_they-americans-want-to-believe-that-good_3182940.jpg) > [Ce n'est gue' re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente" tement une foi entie' re en des regards…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/ce-n-est-gue-re-que-dans-les-asiles-que-les-coquettes-gardent-avec/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/512/simone-de-beauvoir-407_coquette_ce-n-est-gue-re-que-dans-les-asiles-que_1316394.jpg) ## Other authors on Want ## More by Simone de Beauvoir > [The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/the-time-that-one-gains-cannot-be-accumulated-in-a-storehouse-it-is/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 practically impossible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/one-is-not-born-a-genius-one-becomes-a-genius-and-the-feminine/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/many-things-would-be-changed-for-americans-if-they-would-only-admit/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) > [“You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/you-said-something-very-true-the-other-day-that-for-us-nudity-begins/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) > [“Ženama se ne rađamo, nego postajemo”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/enama-se-ne-ra-amo-nego-postajemo/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) > [Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/life-is-occupied-in-both-perpetuating-itself-and-in-surpassing-itself/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) > [Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/fathers-never-have-exactly-the-daughters-they-want-because-they/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) > [However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/however-gifted-an-individual-is-at-the-outset-if-his-or-her-talents/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) > [In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/in-fact-people-seem-to-be-tired-of-fiction-now-there-are-so-many/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) > [Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/feminism-is-one-way-of-attacking-society-as-it-now-exists/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) > [“Magari mi troverai ridicola, ma mi disprezzerei se non osassi esserlo mai”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/magari-mi-troverai-ridicola-ma-mi-disprezzerei-se-non-osassi-esserlo/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) > [from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/from-one-minute-to-the-next-the-present-is-merely-an-honorary-past-it/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) > [I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/i-am-awfully-greedy-i-want-everything-from-life-i-want-to-be-a-woman/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) > [“I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/i-enjoyed-my-exhaustion-though-i-liked-overdoing-things/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) > [“But I miss you to the point of anguish.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/but-i-miss-you-to-the-point-of-anguish/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/want/simone-de-beauvoir/#itemlist", "name": "16 Want Quotes By Simone de Beauvoir", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I don't want to be just another blade of grass.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Simone de Beauvoir" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/i-don-t-want-to-be-just-another-blade-of-grass/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4d/simone-de-beauvoir-407_blades_i-don-t-want-to-be-just-another-blade-of_2196054.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4d/simone-de-beauvoir-407_blades_i-don-t-want-to-be-just-another-blade-of_2196054.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4d/simone-de-beauvoir-407_blades_i-don-t-want-to-be-just-another-blade-of_2196054.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I don't want to be just another blade of grass.” — Simone de Beauvoir", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Simone de Beauvoir" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/as-soon-as-a-woman-re-fuses-to-be-perfectly-happy-doing-housework/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/630/simone-de-beauvoir-407_eight_as-soon-as-a-woman-re-fuses-to-be-perfec_2536137.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/630/simone-de-beauvoir-407_eight_as-soon-as-a-woman-re-fuses-to-be-perfec_2536137.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/630/simone-de-beauvoir-407_eight_as-soon-as-a-woman-re-fuses-to-be-perfec_2536137.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency…” — Simone de Beauvoir", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "He reflected. 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