I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking, of inventing, of imagining, of choosing, of deciding for themselves; this incapacity was expressed by their conformism; in every domain of life they employed only the abstract measure of money, because they were unable to trust to their own judgment.


Force of circumstance (ed. 1977)

Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking, of inventing, of...

I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking, of inventing, of...

I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking, of inventing, of...

I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking, of inventing, of...