Simone de Beauvoir Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

18 Famous Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
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“It's only arrogance if you're wrong”
Arrogance Quotes
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day”
Housework Quotes
“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.”
Hypocrisy Quotes
“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.”
Slavery Quotes
“One is not born a woman, one becomes one.”
Women Quotes
Source: The Second Sex
“To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.”
Acceptance Quotes
“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.”
Comfort Quotes
“There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.”
Justification Quotes
“Buying is a profound pleasure.”
Buying Quotes
“One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.”
Inspirational Quotes
“In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.”
Art and artists Quotes
“It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.”
Children / youth Quotes
“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”
Existence Quotes
“Buying is a profound pleasure.”
Finance and economics Quotes
“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”
Freedom Quotes
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.”
Housework Quotes
“To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.”
Negativity Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes