In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Simone de BeauvoirIf the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.
Simone de BeauvoirMany things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.
Simone de BeauvoirI take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.
Simone de Beauvoir