To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.
Simone de BeauvoirBecause we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
Simone de BeauvoirThere are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.
Simone de BeauvoirEvery time I start on a new book, I am a beginner again. I doubt myself, I grow discouraged, all the work accomplished in the past is as though it never was, my first drafts are so shapeless that it seems impossible to go on with the attempt at all, right up until the moment - always imperceptible, there, too, there is a break - when it is has become impossible not to finish it.
Simone de Beauvoir