Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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
It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and… — 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
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our… — 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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is… — 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
There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls… — 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
The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The father's life is surrounded by mysterious prestige: the hours he spends in the home, the room where he works, the objects… — 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
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
