697 Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.

Why does one exist? That's not my problem. One does exist. The thing to do is to take no notice but go at it on the run and to keep on going right on until you die.

The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other.

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.

To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized.

Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

She compensated for this sense of inferiority by making fun of everything. I did not notice it then, but she never made fun of my faults, only of my virtues;.

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

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