You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done. 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 ghettowantthinking Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination. Simone de Beauvoir politicalimaginationdoe Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me Simone de Beauvoir has-beensgiven 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 hierarchywantideas 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 tearschangepast In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider. Simone de Beauvoir outsidersremainsartist Art is an attempt to integrate evil. Simone de Beauvoir integratingevilart 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 viewsinspiringmen Buying is a profound pleasure. Simone de Beauvoir shoppingbuyingprofound 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-loveproudwould-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 communicationemotionaltwo This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity. Simone de Beauvoir alliesfeministlosing 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 feminismfrance --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 heartbreakingsightworld I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said. Simone de Beauvoir understoodsaidthinking 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 menmeanworld 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 racingwaitingmemories Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death. Simone de Beauvoir love-lifeexistentialthinking To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself. Simone de Beauvoir body-weightbad-dayself-esteem Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death. Simone de Beauvoir existentialismhard-timestoday
