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
memories husband attitude
My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together.
inspiring men males
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
inspirational truth safe
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
eye no-confidence ifs
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
fighting self guarantees
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
couple together goes-on
A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?
suicide hate reality
In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.
women equality males
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
adventure feet knights
The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.
birthday time children
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
selfish work loneliness
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.
shopping profound buying
Buying is a profound pleasure.
mind way granted
The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.
capability has-beens
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.