I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me. — Simone de Beauvoir
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female – whenever she behaves as a human — Simone de Beauvoir
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. — Simone de Beauvoir
Why one man rather than another? it was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow — Simone de Beauvoir
When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies — Simone de Beauvoir
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it — Simone de Beauvoir
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or — Simone de Beauvoir
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. — Simone de Beauvoir
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. — Simone de Beauvoir
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal — Simone de Beauvoir
It is easier to think of the world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all — Simone de Beauvoir
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
All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him — Simone de Beauvoir
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes — Simone de Beauvoir