All Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
- I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance. Balance
- But I must admit I didn´t like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat - that had… Admit
- all success cloaks a surrender All
- The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question… Change
- I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and… All
- To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to… Amazing
- To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude. Abstain
- Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes. Aim
- If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion Absurd
- There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless. Air
- I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas… Fall
- …but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth:… Absolute
- I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair. Absolute
- I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that… Appropriate
- Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth. Advantageous
- ...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen. Counselling
- I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way. Altogether
- The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the… All
- To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision. Decision
- But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word… Congress
- Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody. Admired
- For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it,… Closer
- I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve, I thought it… Always Thought
- Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside… Accept
- Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others. Benefits