Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.
Simone de BeauvoirIn truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.
Simone de BeauvoirA writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.
Simone de BeauvoirWhat an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.
Simone de BeauvoirAmericans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.
Simone de BeauvoirThe individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others. He justifies his existence by a movement which, like freedom, springs from his heart but which leads outside of himself.
Simone de Beauvoir