black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

Simone de Beauvoir

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Demand Sacrifice War
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Body Naked True Yourself
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Death Hard Time Live
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Oppression Philosophy Strong
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Existence Feeling Freedom
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
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
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Effort Separate Togetherness
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
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Break Magic Sex Woman
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Existence Freedom Spring Value
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Earth 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

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes