Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.
Simone de BeauvoirShe was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
Simone de Beauvoirthere is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.
Simone de BeauvoirThere are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she will speak of it in exactly the same way as a man. But if she speaks of her own personal problems as a woman, she will obviously speak in another way.
Simone de BeauvoirChoice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea of freedom.
Simone de BeauvoirI think that feminism permits women to speak among themselves, instead of simply being resentful, having personal complaints, which get them nowhere and which make them sick and ill-tempered, depressive and poison the lives of their husbands and children. It's much better to arrive at a collective consciousness of this problem, which is both a kind of therapy and the basis for a struggle.
Simone de Beauvoir