This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
Simone de BeauvoirOld age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.
Simone de BeauvoirI think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.
Simone de BeauvoirIt is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
Simone de BeauvoirA life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent: this contradiction breeds many misunderstandings.
Simone de Beauvoir