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
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.
reality murder captives
... words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive ...
country technology men
Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.
heart acting action
Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.
self two would-be
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe.
shapes firsts world
I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.
proud would-be our-love
If I were proud of anything in my life, it would be of our love. I feel we have to tell to each other as many things as we can, so we are not only lovers, but the closest of friends at the same time.
love-you earth i-can
We belong to this earth. Now I can see the truth ... I love you on this earth of ours. Love me, do!