We belong to this earth. Now I can see the truth ... I love you on this earth of ours. Love me, do!
Simone de BeauvoirMan is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
Simone de BeauvoirYou can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.
Simone de BeauvoirThe renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away their spirit of revolt, of debate, of criticism, and still leave them perfectly capable of making stews or washing dishes. It's terrible, this tendency to consider women something dangerous to society.
Simone de Beauvoir