Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Live with no time-out.
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Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.
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To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.
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Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.
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I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.
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I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.
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I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint.
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When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.
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The renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away their spirit of revolt, of debate, of criticism, and still leave them perfectly capable of making stews or washing dishes. It's terrible, this tendency to consider women something dangerous to society.
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You can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde.
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You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done.
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The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others. He justifies his existence by a movement which, like freedom, springs from his heart but which leads outside of himself.
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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost...I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself!
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Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.
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One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.
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Cooking is revolution and creation.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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If you are writing something in which you are really involved, you don't even need to think about it any longer. The situation itself demands your total commitment as an individual, just as in your political commitments.
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Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much to be feminine and not feminist. And then she is so gaga before so many men. She talks about men I know in France, men who were less than nothing, and she considers them kings, extraordinary people.