When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.
Simone de BeauvoirThere is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
Simone de BeauvoirAnyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.
Simone de BeauvoirThe father's life is surrounded by mysterious prestige: the hours he spends in the home, the room where he works, the objects around him, his occupations, his habits, have a sacred character. It is he who feeds the family, is the one in charge and the head. Usually he works outside the home, and it is through him that the household communicates with the rest of the world: he is the embodiment of this adventurous, immense, difficult, and marvelous world; he is transcendence, he is God.
Simone de Beauvoir