Simone de BeauvoirAnger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination. ✨ Simone de Beauvoir (1953). The second sex, Vintage371Humor
Simone de BeauvoirOn the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat at the grand pia… ▶372DeathSadness
Simone de BeauvoirAll oppression creates a state of war. ✨ Simone de Beauvoir (1953). The second sex, Vintage372Politics
Simone de BeauvoirIf her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through the eternal feminine, and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that wom… ▶351Reflection
Simone de BeauvoirWhen 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… ▶362HumanityReadingTruth
Simone de BeauvoirHowever 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 ta… ▶373Humanity
Simone de BeauvoirBe loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.352Love
Simone de BeauvoirShe offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looke… ▶374Love
Simone de BeauvoirSex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. ✨ Biography/Personal Qu… ▶363Sadness
Simone de BeauvoirI tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. ✨ All Said and Done. Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1972.341LoveReadingTruth
Simone de BeauvoirThe whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.342Hope
Simone de BeauvoirWeakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.353Politics
Simone de BeauvoirIndeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours. ✨ Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). The P… ▶375Philosophy
Simone de BeauvoirI went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.375TimeTruth
Simone de BeauvoirChange your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. ✨ Alice Schwarzer, Simone de Beauvoir (1984). Simone De Beauvoir Today, Not Avail331HopeLifeTime
Simone de BeauvoirThere is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his… ▶342Death
Simone de Beauvoir...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen. ✨ Simone de Beauvoir (1953). The second sex, Vintage376Time
Simone de BeauvoirA life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world p… ▶332LifeTime
Simone de BeauvoirI was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way. ✨ Simone De Beauvoir (2013). The Woman Destroyed, p.84, Pantheon321Humanity
Simone de BeauvoirSociety cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.321Humanity
Simone de BeauvoirOne's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. ✨ Simone de Beauvoir (1975). The Coming… ▶365LifeLove
Simone de BeauvoirEach of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.376Humanity
Simone de BeauvoirFrom the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity. ✨ Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). The Philosophical Libra… ▶322Philosophy
Simone de BeauvoirMarriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others. ✨ “Why do we do it?” by Blake Morrison, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2002.366Truth
Simone de BeauvoirThe point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of pow… ▶333Politics
Simone de BeauvoirTo make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. ✨ Simone de Beauvoir (1953). The second sex, Vintage366Time
Simone de BeauvoirIn the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. ✨ Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). The Philosophical Librar… ▶366Philosophy
Simone de BeauvoirOld age is life's parody. ✨ Simone de Beauvoir (1972). La vieillesse345Life
Simone de BeauvoirAs long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought,… ▶334PhilosophyThought
Simone de BeauvoirIt must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.323DeathLife
