Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Simone de Beauvoir Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Simone de Beauvoir
Type:
Writer
Nationality:
French
Birth day:
January 9
Birth year:
1908

  • 1
    All oppression creates a state of war. Simone de Beauvoir
  • 2
    All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them. Simone de Beauvoir
  • 3
    Art is an attempt to integrate evil. Simone de Beauvoir
  • 4
    Buying is a profound pleasure. Simone de Beauvoir
  • 5
    Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir
  • 6
    Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. Simone de Beauvoir
  • 7
    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
  • 8
    No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. Simone de Beauvoir
  • 9
    One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. Simone de Beauvoir
  • 10
    One is not born a woman, but becomes one. Simone de Beauvoir
  • 11
    One is not born a woman, one becomes one. Simone de Beauvoir
  • 12
    One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir
  • 13
    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
  • 14
    Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. Simone de Beauvoir
  • 15
    Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. Simone de Beauvoir
  • 16
    Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. Simone de Beauvoir
  • 17
    This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. Simone de Beauvoir
  • 18
    To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. Simone de Beauvoir
  • 19
    What is an adult? A child blown up by age. Simone de Beauvoir
  • 20
    When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. Simone de Beauvoir
  • 21
    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. Simone de Beauvoir

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quote Author Nationality