There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.
Simone de BeauvoirTo make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Simone de BeauvoirThis has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
Simone de BeauvoirIt is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood.
Simone de Beauvoir