Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
Simone de BeauvoirIf the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.
Simone de BeauvoirIf I were proud of anything in my life, it would be of our love. I feel we have to tell to each other as many things as we can, so we are not only lovers, but the closest of friends at the same time.
Simone de BeauvoirThere has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.
Simone de BeauvoirObviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as well as men's literature. I would say that women have been hindered from creating for a variety of reasons, as Virginia Woolf so admirably explained in A Room of One's Own. When they have created, on the whole they have been recognized. In literature it hasn't been nearly as oppressive as in, say, painting, where even the existence of so many women painters has always been denied.
Simone de Beauvoir