Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

After a long run of almost thirty years, you get to the point where you say, 'These are my concerns.' It's not so much this is what I set out to claim - it is a kind of refrain.

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.

I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.

I'm realizing for the first time, your life goes on while you're trying to pursue this career. I saw my career as everything. But you have this life, too. Living your life fully, you come to know yourself better. You'll find the place for it.

It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.

I did my 40 years in Washington, 40-plus, and it's time to pause and reflect and think about what I've seen and done.

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.

I thought if I looked back and evaluated my life, it would help me in the future.

There's something to be said about being able to be retrospective about a certain age as opposed to just in it.

As the years go by, you get to know yourself better and learn what works for you.

I'll admit, when I look back on the past couple decades, a lot of it seems like a blur.

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I've done.

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

deep down I believe my year was a special year: it produced me.

I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.

Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?

I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn't want to go in.

No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.

Life can only be understood backwards.

I always keep my head down, working, doing things, moving forward. That's what I've done all my life. Then you stop and realize what you've done.

Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.

It has taken me thirty three years and a bang on the head to get my values right.