697 Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

It's only arrogance if you're wrong.

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole ...

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

The Communists , following Hegel , speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.

immortality is a terrible curse.

A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?

I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking, of inventing, of imagining, of choosing, of deciding for themselves; this incapacity was expressed by their conformism; in every domain of life they employed only the abstract measure of money, because they were unable to trust to their own judgment.