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
war long victory
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
quality oppression feminine
Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.
conscience
There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.
dream children war
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.
infinity accepting incapable
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
selfish work loneliness
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.
eye no-confidence ifs
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
memories husband attitude
My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together.
fall dust one-day
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
love romantic space
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
couple independent men
To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist for him also: mutually recognising each other as subject, each will yet remain for the other an other...when we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.
inspirational freedom 4th-of-july
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
able you-like-it given
To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.
men arrogance arrogant
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.