Quote of the Day (Simone de Beauvoir, on ‘Authentic Love’)

“Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms; each lover would then experience himself as himself and as the other: neither would abdicate his transcendence, they would not mutilate themselves; together they would both reveal values and ends in the world.”— French existentialist philosopher, social theorist, novelist, and feminist activist Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), The Second Sex (1949)

Quote of the Day (Simone de Beauvoir, on Self-Knowledge)

“Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.”—French existentialist philosopher, novelist, and feminist activist Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), The Second Sex (1949)

Quote of the Day (Simone de Beauvoir, on the Value of One’s Life)

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, compassion.”— French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, and feminist Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), Old Age, translated by Patrick O'Brian (1972)