There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.
Simone de BeauvoirBut women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.
Simone de Beauvoir... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.
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 Beauvoir