Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.
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Old age is life's parody.
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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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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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Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.
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If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.
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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 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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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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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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Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.
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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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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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Buying is a profound pleasure.
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To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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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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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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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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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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The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched, how I would love myself! I would envy no one.