Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Simone de Beauvoir Quotes.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is p

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
Simone de Beauvoir
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe.
Simone de Beauvoir
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
Simone de Beauvoir
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
Simone de Beauvoir
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Simone de Beauvoir
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
Simone de Beauvoir
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overc

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
Simone de Beauvoir
You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done.
Simone de Beauvoir
As long as the family and the myth of the family … have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.
Simone de Beauvoir
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.
Simone de Beauvoir
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male’s superiority.
Simone de Beauvoir
To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized
Simone de Beauvoir
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoir
Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
Simone de Beauvoir