Simone de Beauvoir Body Quotations

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.