Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.
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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 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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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 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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The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.
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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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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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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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To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.
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Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.
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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.