This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
Simone de BeauvoirThere is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
Simone de BeauvoirThe innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of this situation which the one has offered and the other accepted.
Simone de BeauvoirAt the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.
Simone de BeauvoirThe renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away their spirit of revolt, of debate, of criticism, and still leave them perfectly capable of making stews or washing dishes. It's terrible, this tendency to consider women something dangerous to society.
Simone de Beauvoir