Simone de Beauvoir Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Marriage, Dream, Children

  "The Second Sex". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by H. M. Parshley. Book 2, Part 5, Chapter 2: "The Mother", p. 522, 1972.

• When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Children, Book, Despair

  Simone de Beauvoir (1971). “The woman destroyed”

• What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Birthday, Time, Children

  "'Une femme rompue' ('A Woman Destroyed')". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1967.

• Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it's exigencies.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Children, Men, Firsts

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.20, Open Road Media

• No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Children, Home, Choices

  "Sex, Society, and the Female Dilemma". Interview with Betty Friedan, The Saturday Review (pp. 12-21), June 14, 1975.

• It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Children, Lying, Men

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

• Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Children, Men, Young

  Simone de Beauvoir (1977). “Force of Circumstance: Hard times”

• One can hardly tell women that washing up saucepans is their divine mission, [so] they are told that bringing up children is their divine mission. But the way things are in the world, bringing up children has a great deal in common with washing up saucepans.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Children, Women, World

  Alice Schwarzer, Simone de Beauvoir (1984). “Simone De Beauvoir Today”, Not Avail

• I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Mother, Children, Circumstances

  Alice Schwarzer, Simone de Beauvoir (1984). “Simone De Beauvoir Today”, Not Avail

• I think that feminism permits women to speak among themselves, instead of simply being resentful, having personal complaints, which get them nowhere and which make them sick and ill-tempered, depressive and poison the lives of their husbands and children. It's much better to arrive at a collective consciousness of this problem, which is both a kind of therapy and the basis for a struggle.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Children, Husband, Struggle

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

• There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth, because it was their domain. That's changing a little, now.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Children, House, Littles

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

• It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Being Yourself, Children, Responsibility

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les Belles Images”

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