Simone de Beauvoir quotes

“Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.”

— Simone de Beauvoir