697 Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

all success cloaks a surrender

One can not start by saying our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends on us to give it importance.

Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.