Simone de Beauvoir Mean Quotations

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished -- that of man also.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.