That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
Simone de BeauvoirTo refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism.
Simone de BeauvoirYou have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
Simone de Beauvoir