Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. Simone de Beauvoir Read Quote
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. Simone de Beauvoir Read Quote
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. Simone de Beauvoir Read Quote
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. Simone de Beauvoir Read Quote
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. Simone de Beauvoir Read Quote
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. Simone de Beauvoir Read Quote
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. Simone de Beauvoir Read Quote
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women. Simone de Beauvoir Read Quote
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them. Simone de Beauvoir Read Quote