Quote by Simone de Beauvoir Download Open image ““...which we welcomed precisely because it happened to suit our convenience.”” — Simone de Beauvoir ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Over time, we became less sure we were something the other wanted to hold on to.” — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you needed to be an outsider to really appreciate how things worked. Otherwise you took it for granted.” — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
“There it was again: “Came in to see us”, as if it were an enjoyable little day trip that lots of people made, just… — Ruth Mancini Copy Share Image
“I contemplated this undeniable path we had both stepped onto and rushed along without much planning, without enough caution or judgment. And there it… — S.J. Wright Copy Share Image
“It was a true conversation. About whether our ancestors had more important lives than we do. And how they've managed to trick us, if… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Freedom is a rare gift... Quite easily taken for granted and even more easily taken away.” — T.T. Escurel Copy Share Image
“We must have seemed just like everyone else, which, when you get down to it, is all I ever wanted.” — William Landy Copy Share Image
“Respect the fact that all you do and are now, has evolved for a good reason and serves an important purpose.” — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
“They did what human beings looking for freedom, throughout history, have often done. They left.” — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“It had happened again. I had met another American whose generosity, it began to seem to me, gushed out of the spirit of this… — Peter Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Actually, I liked the fact that happenstance had brought him to the right place; it was comforting to know that that life would support… — Neil Abramson 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
