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Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
«On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself -- on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life . . .»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
«In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Homosexuality
| Keywords:
capable, heterosexuality, homosexuality, ideal, in restraint, limiting, obligation, restraint
«The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
«One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion»
«Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.»
«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.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
fellow, involved, involved with, met, nineteen, odd, odder, oddest, Odd and, odd fellow, one-man
«Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
dying, maintain, occupied, occupying, perpetuated, perpetuating, surpassed, surpassing
«The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Love,
Words
| Keywords:
by no means, divide, misunderstandings, serious, sexes, The Word
«I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Self-love,
Truth
| Keywords:
certainties, rewarded, tore