Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
Simone de BeauvoirAuthentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe.
Simone de BeauvoirI realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
Simone de BeauvoirIf women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.
Simone de Beauvoir