Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

It was as though some stubborn god spent their time in an immutable and absurd balancing act between life and death, prosperity and poverty.

وكانت رتابة حياة الكبار تثير شفقتي دائماً , وحين أدركت أن هذه الحياة ستكون عما قريب من نصيبي , أستولى علي الضيق

Un des problèmes essentiels qui se posent à propos de la femme, c'est la conciliation de son rôle reproducteur et de son travail producteur.

biology alone cannot provide an answer to the question that concerns us: why is woman the Other? The question is how, in her, nature has been taken on in the course of history; the question is what humanity has made of the human female.

All those minds that are interested in finding out the truth communicate with each other across the distances of space and time. I, too, was taking part in the effort which humanity makes to know.

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.

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

[...]maintenant je n'ai plus de regrets,parce que les choses qui n'existent pas pour moi,il me semble qu'elles n'existent absolument pas.

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

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

A menudo curar es mutilar.

The truth is, however, that when two individuals detest each other, while being unable to get along without each other, it is not of all human relations the truest and most moving, but rather the most pitiable.

On nous exhorte: 'Soyez femmes, restez femmes, devenez femmes.' Tout être humain femelle n'est donc pas nécessairament une femme; il lui faut participer à cette réalité mystérieuse et menacée qu'est la féminité. (...) Celle-ci est-elle sécrétée par les ovoires? Suffit-il d'un jupon à frou-frou pour la faire descendre sur terre?

People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.