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.
couple justice hypocrisy
When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.
couple together goes-on
A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?
suicide hate reality
In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.
mind way granted
The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.
effort
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
issues arrogance males
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion
couple independent men
To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist for him also: mutually recognising each other as subject, each will yet remain for the other an other...when we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.
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.
surrender cloaks
all success cloaks a surrender
self-esteem bad-day body-weight
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.