It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency. Simone de Beauvoir More Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir More Quotes From Simone de Beauvoir all success cloaks a surrender Simone de Beauvoir cloakssurrender The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams. Simone de Beauvoir womenmotherhooddream Why does one exist? That's not my problem. One does exist. The thing to do is to take no notice but go at it on the run and to keep on going right on until you die. Simone de Beauvoir problemdoerunning A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes. Simone de Beauvoir ashestastewriting When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning." Simone de Beauvoir hairmentwo All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission. Simone de Beauvoir inspirationopportunityideas it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities. Simone de Beauvoir possibilitysacrificelost 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. Simone de Beauvoir destinytimedeath There is something false in this search for a purely feminine writing style. Language, such as it is, is inherited from a masculine society, and it contains many male prejudices. We must rid language of all that. Still, a language is not something created artificially; the proletariat can't use a different language from the bourgeoisie, even if they use it differently, even if from time to time they invent something, technical words or even a kind of worker's slang, which can be very beautiful and very rich. Women can do that as well, enrich their language, clean it up. Simone de Beauvoir stylewritingbeautiful The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it. Simone de Beauvoir grantedmindway Every time I start on a new book, I am a beginner again. I doubt myself, I grow discouraged, all the work accomplished in the past is as though it never was, my first drafts are so shapeless that it seems impossible to go on with the attempt at all, right up until the moment - always imperceptible, there, too, there is a break - when it is has become impossible not to finish it. Simone de Beauvoir doubtbookpast Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one. Simone de Beauvoir femaletwosex Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely. Simone de Beauvoir harmonygrantedtwo One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir strong-womenmotivationalphilosophy Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being. Simone de Beauvoir responsiblehuman-beingshumans I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way. Simone de Beauvoir planetsmadeway There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe. Simone de Beauvoir femininekindbelieve What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty? Simone de Beauvoir charmingoccupationsleep But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves. Simone de Beauvoir feministusemen People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls. Simone de Beauvoir ballspeoplethinking
