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
men situation sympathetic
The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.
way planets made
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
mean winning men
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
couple together goes-on
A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?
strength
Let women be provided with living strength of their own.
inspirational society care
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
hands broken unity
A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent: this contradiction breeds many misunderstandings.
capability has-beens
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
birthday time children
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
morning princess lovely
She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.
men enjoy
A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
queens men slave
...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
suicide hate reality
In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.
couple justice hypocrisy
When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.