Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
Simone de BeauvoirChristianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.
Simone de BeauvoirIf you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.
Simone de Beauvoir