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
adventure feet knights
The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.
children women world
One can hardly tell women that washing up saucepans is their divine mission, [so] they are told that bringing up children is their divine mission. But the way things are in the world, bringing up children has a great deal in common with washing up saucepans.
library adrift literature
Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.
civilization silence age
Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.
thinking people balls
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
giving age goes-on
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
issues arrogance males
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion
life death sex
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
gay men heterosexuality-is
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
effort
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
fighting self guarantees
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
inspirational insperational generosity
That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
shopping profound buying
Buying is a profound pleasure.
men law light
Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.