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
There is the problem of unpaid labor, such as housework, which represents millions and millions of unsalaried work hours and on which… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for… — 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
But I must admit I didn´t like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If I were proud of anything in my life, it would be of our love. I feel we have to tell to… — 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
Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately. — 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
