But I must admit I didnยดt like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat - that had been the nightmare of my adolescence. If it meant going back to that, if would be just as well to turn on the gas at once. But I suppose everyone thinks of things like that: letยดs turn on the gas at once. And you donยดt turn it on.
Simone de BeauvoirNo woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.
Simone de BeauvoirWhen I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].
Simone de BeauvoirThe arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.
Simone de Beauvoir