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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about olderness, death, age, old, life, destiny, absolute, time

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do -or don't do.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about children, contentment, being

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

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about life

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about man

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about genius

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about woman

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about woman

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

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

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about magic, pleasure, word, woman, sex

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

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.

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