Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
Simone de BeauvoirHegel 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 BeauvoirWork would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.
Simone de Beauvoir