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
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
... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
One can hardly tell women that washing up saucepans is their divine mission, [so] they are told that bringing up children is… — 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
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 believe that we must use language. If it is used in a feminist perspective, with a feminist sensibility, language will find… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted -… — 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
In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There are jobs that can be done equally well by men or by women and that finally you can't see a difference.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right… — 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
