Famous Simone De Beauvoir Quotes

Buying is a profound pleasure.
-- Simone De Beauvoir

Buying is a profound pleasure.
-- Simone De Beauvoir

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.
-- Simone De Beauvoir

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.
-- Simone De Beauvoir

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
-- Simone De Beauvoir

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
-- Simone De Beauvoir

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.
-- Simone De Beauvoir

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.
-- Simone De Beauvoir

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
-- Simone De Beauvoir

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.
-- Simone De Beauvoir

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
-- Simone De Beauvoir

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
-- 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

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