I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
Simone de BeauvoirThe point is not for women simply to take power out of menโs hands, since that wouldnโt change anything about the world. Itโs a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.
Simone de BeauvoirThere are jobs that can be done equally well by men or by women and that finally you can't see a difference. But from the moment that you involve yourself fully in writing a novel, for example, or an essay, then you are involved as a woman, in the same way that you can't deny your nationality - you are French, you are a man, you are a woman... all this passes into the writing.
Simone de Beauvoir