Quotes by : Simone de Beauvoir

[Woman] is simply what man decrees; thus she is called "the sex," by which is meant that she appears....

: woman is an eminently poetic reality since man projects onto her everything he is not resolved to be.....

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do-or don't do.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes but....

Yet I loathe the thought of annihilating myself quite as much now as I ever did. I think with sadness....

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy.

If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.....

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the....