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
change positive inspirational-life
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
strength
Let women be provided with living strength of their own.
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.
surrender cloaks
all success cloaks a surrender
responsible humans human-beings
Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.
insane dresses coquette
Ce n'est gue' re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente" tement une foi entie' re en des regards absents; normalement, elles re clament des te moins. Women fond of dress are hardly ever entirely satisfied not to be seen, except among the insane; usually they want witnesses.
drinking odds boredom
it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed with well-being. In fact, almost all are at odds with themselves; drink offers a remedy for this inner malady of which boredom is the most usual sign: as drinking is accepted by society, it does not appear as a sign of their [Americans'] inability to adapt themselves; it is rather the adapted form of inadaptability.
economic dependence nations
A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.
revenge reality literature
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction ...
immortality terrible curse
immortality is a terrible curse.
mistake firsts pedestal
A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.
time years moments
For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.
time decay horror
For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.
despair phrases comfort
I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.