Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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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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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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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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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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In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.
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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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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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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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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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A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.
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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.