It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world. Simone de Beauvoir More Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir More Quotes From Simone de Beauvoir Can one say that there is a way of crying out, of speaking, which is properly feminine? Personally, I don't think so. In the end, I find this is another way of putting women in a kind of singularity, a ghetto, which is not what I want. I want them to be singular and universal at the same time. Simone de Beauvoir ghetto want thinking Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination. Simone de Beauvoir political imagination doe Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me Simone de Beauvoir has-beens given If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all. Simone de Beauvoir hierarchy want ideas Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear, without having so much as a smile for the young future. Simone de Beauvoir tears change past In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider. Simone de Beauvoir outsiders remains artist Art is an attempt to integrate evil. Simone de Beauvoir integrating evil art Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. Simone de Beauvoir views inspiring men Buying is a profound pleasure. Simone de Beauvoir shopping buying profound If I were proud of anything in my life, it would be of our love. I feel we have to tell to each other as many things as we can, so we are not only lovers, but the closest of friends at the same time. Simone de Beauvoir our-love proud would-be The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other. Simone de Beauvoir communication emotional two This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity. Simone de Beauvoir allies feminist losing I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism. Simone de Beauvoir feminism france --There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself. Simone de Beauvoir heartbreaking sight world I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said. Simone de Beauvoir understood said thinking Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished -- that of man also. Simone de Beauvoir men mean world My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away. Simone de Beauvoir racing waiting memories Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death. Simone de Beauvoir love-life existential thinking To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself. Simone de Beauvoir body-weight bad-day self-esteem Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death. Simone de Beauvoir existentialism hard-times today
