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Read through the most famous quotes from Simone de Beauvoir
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself ↗
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...]. ↗
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion ↗
That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. ↗
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. ↗
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living. ↗
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself. ↗
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Beauvoir herself was deeply religious as a child —- at one point intending to become a nun -— until Simone de Beauvoir experienced a crisis of faith at age 14 after which Simone de Beauvoir remained an atheist for the rest of her life. Debates rage on about the extent to which they influenced each other in their existentialist works such as Sartre's Being and Nothingness and Beauvoir's She Came to Stay. Beauvoir used Les Temps Modernes to promote her own work and explore her ideas on a small scale before fashioning essays and books.
"La Beauvoir" redirects here; also see: Beauvoir (disambiguation). She is best known for her novels including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins as well as her 1949 treatise The Second Sex a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. Beauvoir wrote novels essays biographies an autobiography monographs on philosophy politics and social issues.
