As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.
Simone de BeauvoirEach person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.
Simone de BeauvoirWe must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.
Simone de BeauvoirThere is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.
Simone de Beauvoir