Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1886)

8 quotes

"To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object."

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1886)

"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me."

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1886)

"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."

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1886)

"It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills."

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1886)

"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."

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1886)

"It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills."

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1886)

"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me."

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1886)

"To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object."

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1886)