The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear, without having so… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck. — 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
