People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
Simone de BeauvoirThis has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
Simone de BeauvoirOne can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.
Simone de BeauvoirThe curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.
Simone de Beauvoir