Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.
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The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.
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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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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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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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A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent: this contradiction breeds many misunderstandings.
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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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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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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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To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.
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One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.