The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
Simone de BeauvoirAt bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.
Simone de BeauvoirI 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 Beauvoir