Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men.
Simone de BeauvoirThere has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.
Simone de BeauvoirMan is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
Simone de BeauvoirWe always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.
Simone de Beauvoir