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
women equality males
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
inspirational truth safe
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
funny art jobs
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
children home choices
No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.
travel new-york sleep
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
life positive reason
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
achievement littles limits
To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized
self two would-be
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe.
born femme
On ne na|"t pas femme: on le devient. One is not born a woman: one becomes a woman.
children book despair
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].
inspiring men males
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
marriage careers benefits
Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.
children men firsts
Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it's exigencies.
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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.