from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest.
Simone de BeauvoirIf the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion
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 BeauvoirYouth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.
Simone de Beauvoir