The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists only by being spent and there is a good case for showing that airplanes, machines, the telephone, and the radio do not make men of today happier than those of former times.
Simone de BeauvoirIf her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question: what is a woman?
Simone de BeauvoirDefending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
Simone de BeauvoirTo be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.
Simone de Beauvoir