Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth9 January 1908
CountryFrance
suicide heart bars
That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.
country technology men
Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.
retirement roles retired
The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.
turns
One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.
attitude women inequality
The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.
country new-york real
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 goes beyond its borders.
losing-him way salvation
... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.
women world body
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 are modified through the action of others than herself.
work games play
Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.
writing worship trade
Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.
book honest confession
Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.
airplane technology men
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists only by being spent and there is a good case for showing that airplanes, machines, the telephone, and the radio do not make men of today happier than those of former times.
two harmony granted
Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.
soul atheism legends
Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.