Best Simone de Beauvoir Words
- The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways;… Affirm
- Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world… Action
- Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature. Always Let
- Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately. All
- Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing. Inspirational
- The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world. Always Taken
- The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -- each asking… Asking
- Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own… Abolished
- It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not… Accepting
- Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess. Author
- It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital… America
- Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation. Feminine
- The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one. Longer
- Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Funny
- The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another. All
- One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. Becomes
- It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living. Conditions
- The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project Body
- There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There… Absolute
- Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me Been
- --There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too.… Around One
- Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've… Call
- My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour… Dies
- The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was… All
- What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in. Diaries
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