Quotes by : Simone de Beauvoir

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

‎A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because....

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

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

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything....

she gives birth in pain, she heals males' wounds, she nurses the newborn and buries the dead; of man....

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself & in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself,....

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

Scriassine studied me in turn. "You're not so dumb, you know. Generally I dislike intelligent women,....