It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about olderness, death, age, old, life, destiny, absolute, time
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.Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about children, being
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about life
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about man
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about value, friendship, life, love
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about holidays, being
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about magic, pleasure, woman, sex
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about society
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about society, woman, being, man
That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.Quote by Simone de Beauvoir
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.Quote by Simone de Beauvoir
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about word, common sense, sense, love
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about novelty, originality, writers
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about world, man
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about husband, art, magic
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about being, things