Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

Ones life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

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

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the males superiority.

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

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

“What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.”

“In oppressing, one becomes oppressed. Men are enchained by reason of their very sovereignty; it is because they alone earn money that their wives demand checks, it is because they alone engage in a business or profession that their wives require them to be successful, it is because they alone embody transcendence that their wives wish to rob them of it by taking charge...”

“Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.”

“The fear of death never left me; I couldnt get used to the thought; I would still sometimes shake and weep with terror. By contrast, the fact of existence here and now sometimes took on a glorious splendour.”

“Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise. (p. 248)”

“Ones life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion”