black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.

Simone de Beauvoir

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Death Life Live
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

History Let Go Myself
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Myself Poet Taste Writing
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Body Philosophy World
All success cloaks a surrender.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Success
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Hope Philosophy World
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Easy People
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Body Spiritual World
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Acceptance Man
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Blessing Greatness Love Myself
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Oppression Philosophy Strong
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Beginning Himself Man Sex

If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes