Simone de Beauvoir Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.”

“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”

“Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.”

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

“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.”

“All oppression creates a state of war.”

“It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.”

“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.”

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

“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.”