I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can be portrayed externally very well - Stendhal's Madame de Renal, for example - but only as seen from the outside.
Simone de BeauvoirAt the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.
Simone de BeauvoirSociety turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.
Simone de BeauvoirWhat an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.
Simone de Beauvoir