Simone de BeauvoirA collection of 17 posts

Women

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Women

No one is more arrogant toward women more aggressive or scornful than the man ...

War

All oppression creates a state of war.

Truth

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay...

Truth

Representation of the world like the world itself is the work of men they desc...

Society

Society being codified by man decrees that woman is inferior she can do away w...

Society

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

Power

All the idols made by man however terrifying they may be are in point of fact ...

Love

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for trut...

Friendship

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others ...