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
given has-beens
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me
fire vigor lost-everything
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.
unique self natural
Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.
lying reading writing
There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost...I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself!
inspiration opportunity ideas
All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.
being-sad unhappy reason
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
attitude political
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
time age natural
Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.
anxiety age care
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
atheist believe angry
I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.
men justice accused
When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.
wings justice kitchen
Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly.
book writing men
A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.
responsibility assuming assumption
You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do.