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
religious women hangover
She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.
women history historical
it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.
women defects ifs
To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.
attitude women inequality
The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.
women world body
Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.
sex women mean
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
strong-women empowerment age
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
dream women motherhood
The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.
children women world
One can hardly tell women that washing up saucepans is their divine mission, [so] they are told that bringing up children is their divine mission. But the way things are in the world, bringing up children has a great deal in common with washing up saucepans.
women equality males
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
women independence today
The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways; but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being.
One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
kind habit
Habit has a kind of poetry.
men white-hair two
When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."