When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.
Simone de BeauvoirBut I must admit I didnยดt like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat - that had been the nightmare of my adolescence. If it meant going back to that, if would be just as well to turn on the gas at once. But I suppose everyone thinks of things like that: letยดs turn on the gas at once. And you donยดt turn it on.
Simone de BeauvoirA man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.
Simone de BeauvoirI think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.
Simone de Beauvoir