Simone de Beauvoir Quotes & Sayings
34 most famous Simone de Beauvoir quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She was a French writer who passed away on 14 April, 1986.
“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”
“One is not born a woman, but becomes one.”
“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”
“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”
“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.”
“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.”
“No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.”
“Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.”
“The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.”
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