Quotes by : Simone de Beauvoir

I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water....

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

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.

In oppressing, one becomes oppressed. Men are enchained by reason of their very sovereignty; it is because....

The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal....

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship,....

One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.

But this element of failure is a very condition of his life; one can never dream of eliminating it without....

But I was brought up on convent morals and paternal nationalism, I was getting bogged down in contradictions.....