Simone de Beauvoir Doe Quotations

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.

Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men.

Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.

There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him.

Why does one exist? That's not my problem. One does exist. The thing to do is to take no notice but go at it on the run and to keep on going right on until you die.