Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
Simone de BeauvoirAt bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.
Simone de BeauvoirI think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.
Simone de BeauvoirIndeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.
Simone de BeauvoirTo be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values. There is a problematic, a very difficult dialectic between accepting power and refusing it, accepting certain masculine values, and wanting to transform them. I think it's worth a try.
Simone de Beauvoir