Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

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

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.

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.

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

Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.

What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.