697 Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.