Words matter. These are the best Simone de Beauvoir Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Buying is a profound pleasure.
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male’s superiority.
This has always been a man’s world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
All oppression creates a state of war.
