Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

immortality is a terrible curse.

I think that The Second Sex will seem an old, dated book, after a while. But nonetheless, a book which will have made its contribution. At least, I hope so.

What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?

I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking, of inventing, of imagining, of choosing, of deciding for themselves; this incapacity was expressed by their conformism; in every domain of life they employed only the abstract measure of money, because they were unable to trust to their own judgment.

Choice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea of freedom.

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.