black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.

Simone de Beauvoir

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

Art Husband Marriage
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Change Fall Herself Touch
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Body Herself Woman
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
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

Human Man Woman
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Ability Inspirational Worth
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Blame Character Yourself
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Man Truth View World
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Life Oneself Value
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Arrogant Mad Man
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
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Expression Female Genius History
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Mystery Philosophy

It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes