Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

One is not born a woman: one becomes a woman.

If you live long enough, you’ll find that every victory turns into a defeat.

Woman…knows that when she is looked at she is not considered apart from her appearance: she is judged, respected, desired, by and through her toilette.

Women fond of dress are hardly ever entirely satisfied not to be seen, except among the insane; usually they want witnesses.

There is a good case for showing that airplanes, machines, the telephone and the radio do not make men of today happier than those of former times.