Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.
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La femme?sait que quand on la regarde on ne la distingue pas de son apparence: elle est juge e, respecte e, de sire e a' travers sa toilette. Woman?knows that when she is looked at she is not considered apart from her appearance: she is judged, respected, desired, by and through her toilette.
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I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.
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Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.
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I think that The Second Sex will seem an old, dated book, after a while. But nonetheless, a book which will have made its contribution. At least, I hope so.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.
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The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.
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I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down.
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As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.
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Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.
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Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
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We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.
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In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they are completely oppressed by men; they take men at their word and believe in the gods that men have made up. The situation of women, their culture, makes them kneel more often before the gods that have been created by men than men themselves do, who know what they've done. To this extent, women will be more fanatical, whether it is for fascism or for totalitarianism.
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Feminism is a revolutionary movement which is different from the class struggle movement, the proletarian movement, but which is a movement which must be leftist. By that I mean at the extreme left, a movement working to overthrow the whole society.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.
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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.
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For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.