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 waiting racing
My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
tasks cleaning made
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.
destiny giving importance
One can not start by saying our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends on us to give it importance.
taken home house
The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.
fate civilization males
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch, which is described as feminine.
surrender cloaks
all success cloaks a surrender
able you-like-it given
To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.
self-esteem bad-day body-weight
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
unique convince oneself
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
atheist thinking world
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.
strong-women empowerment age
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
responsible humans human-beings
Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.
dream women motherhood
The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.
philosophy men world
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.