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
stupid stubborn faces
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
self stories consciousness
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
sleep occupation charming
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
receiving force sentences
He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time
world body instruments
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
doubt earth blind
And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.
journey expectations crumbling
The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.
world green want
Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass.
men weakness danger
On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.
understanding facts reason
Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.
men inferiority males
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
teacher retirement holiday
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
acceptance different passive
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
death time destiny
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.