96 Badass Simone De Beauvoir Quotes That Will Inspire You
The 'Mother of Modern Feminism', Simone de Beauvoir was an extraordinary intellectual, French writer, political activists and social theorist. Her life exemplified the emergence of female-centric revolutionary ideas and struggle for social structure free from patriarchal ideas. She laid down a political roadmap for reinvention and polarization of the society. Being extremely intelligent for her age, Simone completed her graduation at the delicate age of 17 and earned her advanced degree when she was just 19. She was the youngest person to achieve an aggregation in philosophy who scored second highest marks in this test. Simone, the 'lady of letters' wrote on popularized social taboos like politics, morality, gender theory, sexuality, philosophy, literary criticism and existentialism. Along with her partner Jean-Paul Sarte, this legendary intellectual wrote several novels, memoirs, magazines and columns. Before her death, she had produced countless essays and 20 ground-breaking books. Her best works include 'The Second Sex', 'She Came to Say' and 'The Ethics of Ambiguity'. Simone's autography 'The Mandarins' that beautifully captures her life struggles brought her France's highest literary Honor. Throughout her life, de Beauvoir lived a controversial but star-like life, meeting foreign dignitaries and getting followed by the paparazzi. A headstrong person with clear-cut ideologies, Simone is an inspiration for modern-day women. Her thoughts and quotes reflect her intellectualism. We have gathered together Simone de Beauvoir's most thought-provoking quotes. Presenting a collection of Simone de Beauvoir's quotes excerpted from her work and life.
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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.
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248)
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion
