it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.
Simone de BeauvoirThe day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.
Simone de BeauvoirIf you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.
Simone de Beauvoir