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
Simone de Beauvoir quotes about
time age natural
Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.
female faces enough
If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question: what is a woman?
wings justice kitchen
Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly.
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.
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.
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.
time
Live with no time-out.
destiny arbitrary existential
Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours...
existential eternal-life eternal
The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.
achievement littles limits
To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized
love-life thinking existential
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.
spring heart movement
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.
suicide heart bars
That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.