Simone de Beauvoir Quotes


The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.


Citations

Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex. Translated by H. M. Parshley, Alfred A. Knopf, 1953, p. 727.

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Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
  • Born: January 9, 1908
  • Died: April 14, 1986
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Writer

Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.