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Famous Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
“It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.”
“In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.”
“it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.”
“When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.”
“I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.”
“History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.”
“A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.”
“Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.”
“Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.”
“In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.”
“The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.”
“Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.”
“Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.”
“The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.”
“Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.”