Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Simone de Beauvoir Quotes.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Simone de Beauvoir
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
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
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
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
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
Simone de Beauvoir
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
Simone de Beauvoir
To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized
Simone de Beauvoir
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
Simone de Beauvoir
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
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
Simone de Beauvoir
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
Simone de Beauvoir
Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
Simone de Beauvoir
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.
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
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
Simone de Beauvoir