Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.

A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?

Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

I think that The Second Sex will seem an old, dated book, after a while. But nonetheless, a book which will have made its contribution. At least, I hope so.

There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.