I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.
Simone de BeauvoirA Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.
Simone de BeauvoirIn truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.
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 Beauvoir