68 result(s) for Simone De Beauvoir Quotes.
"To be free is not to have the power to do anything you want, but to have the power to do what is right."
"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth—and truth rewarded me."
"She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal."
"Artistic 'originality' is usually nothing but originality in borrowing."
"The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive."
"Ideas are not a gift, but an achievement. We are surrounded by the mythical sense and never think to question it."
"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."
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"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."
"To will freedom and to will to disclose being are one and the same choice; hence, freedom takes a positive sense as the appearance of a phenomenon."
"One is not born a woman, but becomes one."
"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."
"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth— and truth rewarded me."
"You're not born a woman, you become one."
"To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man."
"The body is not a thing, it is a situation; it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project."
"Women are not victims, they are protagonists of their own lives."
"The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown."
"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."
"I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely."
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
"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."
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"I am often astonished at the little efforts made by societies to protect themselves from men with powerful ambitions and small abilities."
"We are free; we are able to do what we will and choose what we will but in the final analysis, we are answerable for what we do."
"Art is an extension of a loving personality."
"I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity."
"All oppression creates a state of war."
"There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning."
"To catch your husband by surprise, before he can prepare his countenance, is one of the great delights of life."
"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…"
"Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it."
"The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project."
"The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with woman."
"To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue none the less to exist to him also: mutually recognizing each other as subject, each will yet remain for the other an other."
"The most important thing is to do what you believe in, and for me, this has always been my focus."
"What astonishes me, just as it astonishes a child when he becomes aware of his body or the pain of a tooth, is what is most ordinary about existence."
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"It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reason for living."
"Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up."
"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."
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."
"It is not in giving oneself all the latitude of existence that one becomes an artist; it is by wisely restrictive submission to disciplines."
"Art is an attempt to integrate evil. We do not thereby redeem it, or forgive it, or ignore it; we exist with it, we cohabit with it. Art is the always the liar that tells the truth."
"I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end."
"The present, we may say somewhat brutally, is all that we possess; the future holds the unknown, the unknown is empty."
"It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living."
"Whenever, incidentally, one approaches art from any other motive than love of it, one is a crook."
"Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind."
"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me."
"I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life."
"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."
"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me."
"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."
"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."
"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."
"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."
"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."
"Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying."
"Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day."
"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."
"The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world."
"In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid."
"We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible."
"To will freedom and to will to disclose being are one and the same choice; hence, freedom takes a positive and not a negative form."
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, and compassion."
"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."
"I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom."
"Art is an attempt to integrate evil."
"It is in finishing its individual life that every being is ethical."
"It is not in the giving of life but in the risking of life that one is made a man."
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