Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

I'm doing what I want to do.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold less and less sway over her.

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself completely did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns.

I had to be my own person and live my own life if I wanted to be happy, and I just did it.

Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself.

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I advise women to live their life to their fullest, invest in who you want to be and live it well.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

I guess my personality is that of a modern, strong Chinese woman. I don't believe in destiny. There are many things that can be changed. I don't like to be defeated by difficulties. I love freedom, so when I am shaping a character, I usually do it the way I want. I always find some part of my own character in a role.

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.