One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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 BeauvoirHe formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time
Simone de BeauvoirThe word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
Simone de Beauvoir