It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.
Simone de BeauvoirWhat would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
Simone de BeauvoirOn the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.
Simone de BeauvoirBetween women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.
Simone de Beauvoir