There is something false in this search for a purely feminine writing style. Language, such as it is, is inherited from a masculine society, and it contains many male prejudices. We must rid language of all that. Still, a language is not something created artificially; the proletariat can't use a different language from the bourgeoisie, even if they use it differently, even if from time to time they invent something, technical words or even a kind of worker's slang, which can be very beautiful and very rich. Women can do that as well, enrich their language, clean it up.
Simone de BeauvoirIf the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion
Simone de BeauvoirThe individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.
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 BeauvoirAnd without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.
Simone de Beauvoir