697 Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I’m aware they’re condemned to death.

The man most sympathetic to women never knows her concrete situation fully. So there is no good reason to believe men when they try to defend privileges whose scope they cannot even fathom.

They don’t like being seen through: as for me I’m straight I don’t join their act I tear masks off.

He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time.

All around me the world lies like an immense hypothesis that I no longer verify.

The Koran treats women with the most absolute contempt.

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

If it is said men oppress women, the husband reacts indigntantly; he feels oppressed: he is; but in fact, it is the masculine code, the society developed by males and in their interest, that has defined the feminine condition in a form that is now for both sexes a source of distress.

If she could inherit, she would thus wrongly transmit her paternal family’s riches to that of her husband: she is carefully excluded from the succession.