Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.
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There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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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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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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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.
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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.
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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 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 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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A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.
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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.