“To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.”

—Simone de Beauvoir.

“Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.”

—Simone de Beauvoir.

“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” —Simone de Beauvoir. 

“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.” 

—Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (9 Jan 1908-1986). 

“It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.” 

—Simone de Beauvoir, writer, philosopher and activist. 

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”

—Simone de Beauvoir.

“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me.”

—Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (9 Jan 1908-1986) .

“Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.”

—Simone de Beauvoir.

“​I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me.”

—Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (9 Jan 1908-1986). 

“One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. ”

~Simone de Beauvoir.

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“The word ‘love’ has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the misunderstandings that divide them.”

—Simone de Beauvoir.

“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled; the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day, day after day…”

—Simone de Beauvoir.