Author of quotes: Simone de Beauvoir. Page 4

It will be such, as I, like thousands of others: a woman who waits for death, itself not knowing why live.

The earth is everywhere equally sad.

No, not today, this I know his death; not today or any other day. I die for others, but she will not see die.

If I love something for life, I'll give myself to feeling whole, body and soul, lose your head and forget the past. I refuse to be content with the husk of feelings and pleasure, not related to this condition.

It will hurt, but it will help out the pride.

How to make spouse at the same time a servant and a friend - that's one of the problems which he [man] is trying to solve.

... man is defined as man and woman as a lady, and every time she behaves like a man, saying she is imitating man.

Mankind is created male sex, and this allows the man to identify the woman as such, but in relation to itself.

... to be a woman is not a vocation, but a state, a woman, as any man must strive to assert themselves as individuals - in terms of creativity, work, self-disclosure. She is not a machine for the reproduction of the human race.

- <...> And where do you put books?
- I don't. After reading the book, I give it to friends, and they, as a rule, it does not return.
- I thought that the writer lives among the walls lined with books. - She doubtfully looked at him: - are you sure You're a real writer?

... I once again thought that she was glad to be a woman, because we're dealing with men, and with them of problems much less.

Even worry too late. <...> Too late for regrets; only to continue.

It's hard to argue with someone who is driving the conversation about the world and other people, constantly talking about himself.

If you like, has not free. However, it is not the same thing - to love someone who believes that is you right, or someone who does not feel for themselves any rights.