Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.
Simone de Beauvoir
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Simone de Beauvoir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 9
Died: 1986
Died: April 14
Author
Autobiographer
Diarist
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
Political Activist
Political Philosopher
Paris
France
Simone-Lucie-Ernestine-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
Castor
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
Woman
Littles
Little
Contributed
Oppression
Ideology
Christian
More quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.
Simone de Beauvoir
I am not at all for a feminism which is entirely separatist, which would say, this domain is purely for women. I don't believe that at all.
Simone de Beauvoir
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
Simone de Beauvoir
Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.
Simone de Beauvoir
There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth, because it was their domain. That's changing a little, now.
Simone de Beauvoir
Ce n'est gue' re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente tement une foi entie' re en des regards absents normalement, elles re clament des te moins. Women fond of dress are hardly ever entirely satisfied not to be seen, except among the insane usually they want witnesses.
Simone de Beauvoir
I don't want to be just another blade of grass.
Simone de Beauvoir
If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.
Simone de Beauvoir
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
Simone de Beauvoir
The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.
Simone de Beauvoir
Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.
Simone de Beauvoir
What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within the norms of the dominant class.
Simone de Beauvoir
All oppression creates a state of war.
Simone de Beauvoir
You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done.
Simone de Beauvoir
A man is in the right in being a man it is the woman who is in the wrong.
Simone de Beauvoir
A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
Simone de Beauvoir
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious mind to attempt to give the word useful an absolute meaning nothing is useful if it is not useful to man nothing is useful to man if the latter is not in a position to define his own ends and values, if he is not free.
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 realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
Simone de Beauvoir
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project
Simone de Beauvoir
