The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and will gradually show me all its secret hills and dales. As I was moving forward, so it was crumbling. Most of the wreckage that can be seen is colourless, distorted, frozen: its meaning escapes me... all that's left is a skeleton. I shall never find my plans again, my hopes and fears - I shall not find myself.
Simone de BeauvoirTo give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.
Simone de BeauvoirIn truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.
Simone de Beauvoir