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
regret grief loss
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
moral
To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.
soul atheism legends
Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.
artist order rooted
In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.
turns
One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.
women defects ifs
To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.
struggle love-is self
Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.
orange jelly green
I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruit drops - red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me.
economic dependence nations
A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.
boxes ballots mechanism
The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.
long myth stills
As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.
forever becoming states
The human species is forever in a state of change, forever becoming.
life-is wells knows
Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.
losing-him way salvation
... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.