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“Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.”

Simone de Beauvoir

Source: The Woman Destroyed

“Sex pleasure in woman, as I have said, is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Second Sex

Bk. 2, Pt.. 4, Ch. 3: Sexual Initiation. p. 396
The Second Sex (1949)

“Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.”

Simone de Beauvoir

Source: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

“Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

“I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Mandarins

Source: The Mandarins

“Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.”

Simone de Beauvoir

“Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.”

Simone de Beauvoir

Source: The Woman Destroyed

“Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Ethics of Ambiguity

Source: The Ethics of Ambiguity

“The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.”

Simone de Beauvoir

“One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Second Sex

Bk. I, Pt. 2, Ch. 8: Since the French Revolution: the Job and the Vote, p. 133
Source: The Second Sex (1949)

“‎A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.”

Simone de Beauvoir

“Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.”

Simone de Beauvoir

Source: The Woman Destroyed

“To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.”

Simone de Beauvoir

Source: Prime of Life

“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

“People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Mandarins

Source: The Mandarins

“To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.”

Simone de Beauvoir

Source: Prime of Life

“…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.”

Simone de Beauvoir

Source: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter