Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.
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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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I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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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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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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I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.
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Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.
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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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Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Buying is a profound pleasure.
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If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.
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There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she will speak of it in exactly the same way as a man. But if she speaks of her own personal problems as a woman, she will obviously speak in another way.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.
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To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.
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In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.
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In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.
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If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.
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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.