simone de beauvoir Quotes 1
| Name | Birthday | Death Date | Nationality | father | Mother | Profession | Famous For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simone de Beauvoir | 9 January 1908 | 14 April 1986 | French | Georges Bertrand de Beauvoir | Françoise Brasseur | Novelist, Philosopher, Essayist, teacher, Political activist | French writer, Existentialist philoshopher, she laid the foundation for the modern feminist movement. |
A list of popular simone de beauvoir quotes are given below.
"Sex 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." - Simone de Beauvoir
"One'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
"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." - Simone de Beauvoir
"No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility." - Simone de Beauvoir
"Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying." - Simone de Beauvoir
"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." - Simone de Beauvoir
"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me." - Simone de Beauvoir
"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 the absolute truth." - Simone de Beauvoir
"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." - Simone de Beauvoir
"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." - Simone de Beauvoir
"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." - Simone de Beauvoir
"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[...]." - Simone de Beauvoir
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion." - Simone de Beauvoir
"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." - Simone de Beauvoir
"The 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 power." - Simone de Beauvoir
"Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen." - Simone de Beauvoir