Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing. Simone de Beauvoir More Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir More Quotes From Simone de Beauvoir Habit has a kind of poetry. Simone de Beauvoir habit kind I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down. Simone de Beauvoir sleep writing running There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him. Simone de Beauvoir slave existential doe One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one. Simone de Beauvoir turns In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything. Simone de Beauvoir need-a-change men needs To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. Simone de Beauvoir passive different acceptance Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind. Simone de Beauvoir france literature mind There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth, because it was their domain. That's changing a little, now. Simone de Beauvoir house littles children There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me. Simone de Beauvoir made feelings believe There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem. Simone de Beauvoir style problem writing I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can be portrayed externally very well - Stendhal's Madame de Renal, for example - but only as seen from the outside. Simone de Beauvoir novel example men A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right away, or a woman of the right or a woman of the left. Simone de Beauvoir writing men way He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time Simone de Beauvoir sentences receiving force A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity. Simone de Beauvoir dependence economic nations I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me. Simone de Beauvoir In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men. Simone de Beauvoir When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. Simone de Beauvoir One is not born a woman, but becomes one. Simone de Beauvoir becomes woman born
