Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth9 January 1908
CountryFrance
atheist believe angry
I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.
expansion existence justification
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
being-sad unhappy reason
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
trying oppression utility
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
feel-good tragedy boring
Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.
daughter father expectations
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
fire vigor lost-everything
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.
sight heartbreaking world
--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.
country lying moving
The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and will gradually show me all its secret hills and dales. As I was moving forward, so it was crumbling. Most of the wreckage that can be seen is colourless, distorted, frozen: its meaning escapes me... all that's left is a skeleton. I shall never find my plans again, my hopes and fears - I shall not find myself.
looks
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
cousin party mirrors
On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat at the grand piano to accompany a lady dressed in a cloud of tulle who played the violin and a cousin who performed on a cello. I would crack between my teeth the candied shell of an artificial fruit, and a burst of light would illuminate my palate with a taste of blackcurrant or pineapple: all the colours, all the lights were mine, the gauzy scarves, the diamonds, the laces; I held the whole party in my mouth.
receiving force sentences
He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time
sleep occupation charming
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
self stories consciousness
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.