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?
Simone de BeauvoirToday, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
Simone de BeauvoirIn itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Simone de Beauvoir