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Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Simone de Beauvoir -- Quote #1

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. -- Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir -- Quote #2

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me. -- Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir -- Quote #3

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. -- Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir -- Quote #4

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form. -- Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir -- Quote #5

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. -- Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir -- Quote #6

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living. -- Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir -- Quote #7

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. -- Simone de Beauvoir

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