When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.
Simone de BeauvoirThere is the problem of unpaid labor, such as housework, which represents millions and millions of unsalaried work hours and on which masculine society is firmly based. To put an end to this would be to send the present-day capitalist system flying in a single blow. Only we can't do it by ourselves; there have to be other kinds of attacks on the system. So a certain alliance with revolutionary systems is necessary, even masculine ones.
Simone de BeauvoirExistence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.
Simone de Beauvoir