Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.
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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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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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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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Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.
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It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood.
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In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and so on. It's a little boring to make up stories. So many people think that it's better to be very close to reality and to recount one's life as it is rather than to fictionalize, as they say, that is to transpose, and therefore to cheat.
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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.
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If I were proud of anything in my life, it would be of our love. I feel we have to tell to each other as many things as we can, so we are not only lovers, but the closest of friends at the same time.
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A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.
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For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.