Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
Simone de Beauvoir

Life, Age, Time

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

Life, Yourself, Find

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
Simone de Beauvoir

Reasons, Adequate, None

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
Simone de Beauvoir

Become, Fact, Situation

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
Simone de Beauvoir

May, Rejection, Holiday

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
Simone de Beauvoir

Society, Woman, Away

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
Simone de Beauvoir

Women, Himself, Feels

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
Simone de Beauvoir

Dead, Writer, Unless

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

Different, Oneself, Object

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: January 9, 1908

Died: April 14, 1986

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