Quotes by Simone De Beauvoir

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

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

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

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

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.

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

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

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

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.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.