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.
individuality talent social
However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.
strength
Let women be provided with living strength of their own.
infinity accepting incapable
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
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.
conscience
There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.
marriage careers benefits
Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.
fighting self guarantees
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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.
women equality males
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
birthday time children
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
selfish work loneliness
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.
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.