black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

Simone de Beauvoir

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Knowledge Oneself Story
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Father Invention
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
All success cloaks a surrender.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

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

Fantasy Perspective
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

History Let Go Myself
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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Arrogant Mad Man
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Love Perspective Understand
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Myself Self Love
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Born Oneself Woman
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes