There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.
Simone de BeauvoirSelf-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
Simone de BeauvoirTo make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Simone de Beauvoir