44 Quotations by Simone de Beauvoir
- 21. One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
- 22. One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friend ...
- 23. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to ...
- 24. Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements o ...
- 25. Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come ...
- 26. Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
- 27. That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the co ...
- 28. That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs yo ...
- 29. The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness ra ...
- 30. The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that disti ...
- 31. The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
- 32. The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one
- 33. There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open f ...
- 34. There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his ...
- 35. This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation ...
- 36. Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past tha ...
- 37. To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
- 38. To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive o ...
- 39. What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
- 40. When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
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