Beauvoir can refer to any of the following:
- Buildings
- Beauvoir (Biloxi, Mississippi), post-American Civil War home of Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis
- People
- Jean Beauvoir, American musician.
- Richard Benyon De Beauvoir, British Member of Parliament.
- Roger de Beauvoir, pen name of French writer, Eugène Auguste Roger de Bully.
- Simone de Beauvoir (La Beauvoir), French author, philosopher, and feminist.
- Hélène de Beauvoir, French painter and sister of Simone de Beauvoir.
- Schools
- Beauvoir School, elementary school at National Cathedral School
- Settlements
- One of several towns or communes of France:
- Beauvoir-de-Marc
- Beauvoir-en-Royans
- Beauvoir, Seine-et-Marne
- Beauvoir-Wavans
- Saint-Hilaire-de-Beauvoir
- De Beauvoir (ward), a ward in the London Borough of Hackney.
- De Beauvoir Town, a district in North London, England.
- Others
- Passerelle Simone-de-Beauvoir, a pedestrian bridge across the Seine River in Paris, France
Famous quotes containing the word beauvoir:
“Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.”
—Simone De Beauvoir (1908–1986)
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
—Simone De Beauvoir (1908–1986)
“Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside—from others. We do not accept it willingly.”
—Simone De Beauvoir (1908–1986)