Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future act now without delay.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes but is a reward in itself.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over activity.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a that the daughters have to conform to.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.

— Simone de Beauvoir

God! When you think of all the things you could do and yet somehow never do! All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn't come fast enough. Instead of being open, you're closed up tight. That's's the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Have you ever felt in your inmost being, the conscience of others?' again she was trembling, the words were not releasing her. 'It's intolerable you know

— Simone de Beauvoir