Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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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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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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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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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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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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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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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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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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A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.