One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about value, friendship, life, love
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34 quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir - french writer and essayist
Was born on 09 jan 1908.
Died on 14 apr 1986, at 78 years old.
Died on 14 apr 1986, at 78 years old.
Origin country: France
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about holidays, being
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about society
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about society, woman, being, 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.
Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about word, common sense, sense, love
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about novelty, originality, writers
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about world, man
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about trap, husband, art, magic
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about being, things
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about children, age, olderness
Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.
Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about man, life
