Quotes by Simone De Beauvoir

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others,...

#Friendship

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old...

#Age, #Funny

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.

#Men And Women

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the...

#Age

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

#Women

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who...

#Women

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

#Age

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever...

#Men And Women

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth...

#Self-love, #Truth

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this...

#Love, #Words

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above...

#Knowledge

It is easier to think of the world without a creator than of a creator...

#God