One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.Simone de Beauvoir
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.Simone de Beauvoir
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female – whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.Simone de Beauvoir
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 absolute truth.Simone de Beauvoir
To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given towards an open future.Simone de Beauvoir
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.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.Simone de Beauvoir
Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.Simone de Beauvoir
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.Simone de Beauvoir
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.Simone de Beauvoir