Simone De Beauvoir

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Being on the fringes of the world is not the best place for someone who intends to re create it here again to go beyond the given one must be deeply rooted in it. Personal accomplishments are almost impossible in human categories collectively kept in an inferior situation.

To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job.

If you live long enough youll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Harmony between two individuals is never granted it has to be conquered indefinitely.

Charm is what some have until they begin to believe it.

One is not born a genius one becomes a genius.

It's only arrogance if you're wrong.

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 was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

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.

All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.

To lose confidence in ones body is to lose confidence in oneself.

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

It is old age rather than death that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is lifes 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.

What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?

Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.

Thats what I consider true generosity. You give your all and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

Thats what I consider true generosity You give your all and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

Change your life today. Dont gamble on the future act now without delay.

No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.

One is not born a woman one becomes one.