Business Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

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

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

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

“You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Ženama se ne rađamo, nego postajemo”

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

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

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

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

Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Magari mi troverai ridicola, ma mi disprezzerei se non osassi esserlo mai”

— Simone de Beauvoir

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