Quotes by : Simone de Beauvoir

The feminine body is expected to be flesh, but discreetly so;

What do you believe in ?""People's sufferings, and the fact that it is abominable. One should do everything....

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about....

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

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.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

Alone: for the first time I understood the terrible significance of that word. Alone without a witness,....

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal....