Quotes from Simone de Beauvoir

el más mediocre de los varones se considera frente a las mujeres un semidiós.

I haven't abandoned you, my little ally, my heart. I kiss you with all my soul.

it is not women's inferiority that has determined their historical insignificance: it is their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority

We only exist if we act.

If she could inherit, she would thus wrongly transmit her paternal family's riches to that of her husband: she is carefully excluded from the succession.

Ženama se ne ra?amo, nego postajemo

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values, and it is impossible for me to examine this conviction with an objective eye.

I had to call the past to life, and illuminate every corner of the five continents, descend to the centre of the earth and make the circuit of the moon and stars

Sorumlusu olmad???m halde, benim olan, hiçbir zaman da ba???latamayaca??m bir günah?n, umutsuzluk içinde, cezas?n? çekiyordum.

Simonides of Amorgos says, "Women are the greatest evil God ever created: if they sometimes seem useful, they soon change into trouble for their masters." For Hipponax: "There are but two days in life when your wife brings you joy: her wedding day and her funeral.

The prostitute is the sum of all types of feminine slavery at once.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our life that we must draw our stengths to love and our reason for acting

The facts of religion were convincing only to those who were already convinced.

La puerta se abrirá lentamente y veré lo que hay detrás de la puerta. Es el porvenir. La puerta del porvenir va a abrirse. Lentamente. Implacablemente. Estoy sobre el umbral. No hay más que esta puerta y lo que acecha detrás. Tengo miedo. Y no puedo llamar a nadie en mi auxilio. Tengo miedo.

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

but there was one book in which I believed I had caught a glimpse of my future self: Little Women, by Louisa M. Alcott.

To be no one, all things considered, is something of a privilege.

I was too much of an extremist to be able to live under the eye of God and at the same time say both yes and no to life

Ich muß fühlen, daß ich lebe. Und wenn ich darüber sterbe.

the oppressor always attempts to diminish those he oppresses; man intentionally refuses women their chances.

The passionate man seeks possession; he seeks to attain being. The failure and the hell which he creates for himself have been described often enough. He causes certain rare treasures to appear in the world, but he also

Humans are the beings whose essence is in not having an essence

But an action which wants to serve man ought to be careful not to forget him on the way, if it chooses to fulfill itself blindly, it will lose its meaning or will take on an unforeseen meaning; for the goal is not fixed once & for all; it is defined all along the road which leads up to it.

With regard to us, she often displayed a cruel unkindness that was more thoughtless than sadistic: her desire was not to cause us unhappiness but to prove her own power to herself.