Author: Simone de Beauvoir

Quotes

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

- Simone de Beauvoir

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

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

- Simone de Beauvoir

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

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

- Simone de Beauvoir

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

- Simone de Beauvoir

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

- Simone de Beauvoir

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

- Simone de Beauvoir

All oppression creates a state of war.

All oppression creates a state of war.

- Simone de Beauvoir

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

- Simone de Beauvoir

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

- Simone de Beauvoir

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