Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.
Simone de BeauvoirThere has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.
Simone de BeauvoirThere is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost...I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself!
Simone de BeauvoirOne is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
Simone de Beauvoir