Simone de Beauvoir Quotes


There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.


Citations

Beauvoir, Simone de. The Blood of Others. Translated by Roger Senhouse and Yvonne Moyse, Alfred A. Knopf, 1948, p. 132.

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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.