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
sex two female
Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.
spring men profound
It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.
sex equality men
Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change.
mind impossible problem
It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.
running doe problem
Why does one exist? That's not my problem. One does exist. The thing to do is to take no notice but go at it on the run and to keep on going right on until you die.
communication emotional self
The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other.
justice done injustice
Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.
long victory defeat
Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat.
fall men age
Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.
mean men world
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 subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished -- that of man also.
sex women mean
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
writing taste ashes
A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.
lying kids people
He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
self-esteem bad-day body-weight
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.