Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir, page 2

Simone de Beauvoir - french writer and essayist

Was born on 09 jan 1908.
Died on 14 apr 1986, at 78 years old.

Origin country: France

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

SQuote by Simone de Beauvoir about value, friendship, life, love

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

SQuote by Simone de Beauvoir about holidays, being

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

SQuote 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.

SQuote by Simone de Beauvoir about society, woman, being, man

That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.

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The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

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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.

SQuote by Simone de Beauvoir about word, common sense, sense, love

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

SQuote 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.

SQuote by Simone de Beauvoir about world, man

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

SQuote 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.

SQuote by Simone de Beauvoir about being, things

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

SQuote by Simone de Beauvoir about children, age, olderness

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

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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.

SQuote by Simone de Beauvoir about contentment, man, life