Choice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea of freedom.
Simone de BeauvoirChristianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.
Simone de BeauvoirI admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that for women he has been absolutely disastrous. And even more so, everyone who came after him.
Simone de BeauvoirIt is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.
Simone de Beauvoir