Simone de Beauvoir's most famous quotes
The top 3 according to 73 votes from people: To will oneself free is also to will others free. · The free woman is only just being born. · One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.. (Updated Jun 18, 2022.)
'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman' and other lines by Simone de Beauvoir, from The Second Sex to Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter and Force of Circumstance, with the work they come from.
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Top 12
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To will oneself free is also to will others free.
The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947).
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The free woman is only just being born.
The Second Sex (1949).
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
The Second Sex (1949), volume II, 'Childhood'.
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It is through work that woman has largely bridged the gap that separated her from the male.
The Second Sex (1949).
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Old age: from a distance you take it for an institution, but it is young people who suddenly find themselves old.
Force of Circumstance (1963).
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I got on very well without God.
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1958).
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I found dying all the more dreadful because I could see no reason for living.
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1958).
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There was one book in which I thought I recognised my face and my destiny: Little Women, by Louisa Alcott.
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1958).
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There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question.
A Very Easy Death (1964), on her mother's death.
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Creation is adventure; it is youth and freedom.
Force of Circumstance (1963).
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To grow old is to define oneself and to shrink.
Force of Circumstance (1963).
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All men are mortal: but for every man his death is an accident.
A Very Easy Death (1964).
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