“ If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression. Simone de Beauvoir
“ I hadn't known Chancel very well, but ten days earlier I had seen him laughing with the others around the Christmas tree. Maybe Robert was right; the distance between the living and the dead really is… Simone de Beauvoir
“ : woman is an eminently poetic reality since man projects onto her everything he is not resolved to be. Simone de Beauvoir
“ The little girl feels that her body is escaping her, that it is no longer the clear expression of her individuality: it becomes foreign to her; and at the same moment she is grasped by others as a thi… Simone de Beauvoir
“ Taking without being taken in the anguish of becoming prey is the dangerous game of adolescent feminine sexuality. Simone de Beauvoir
“ The relation of woman to husband, of daughter to father, of sister to brother, is a relation of vassalage. Simone de Beauvoir
“ ; the man who does not "understand" a woman is happy to replace his subjective deficiency with an objective resistance; instead of admitting his ignorance, he recognizes the presence of a mystery exte… Simone de Beauvoir
“ She gives birth in pain, she heals males' wounds, she nurses the newborn and buries the dead; of man she knows all that offends his pride and humiliates his will. While inclining before him and submit… Simone de Beauvoir
“ The relation of woman to husband, of of daughter to father, of sister to brother, is a relation of vassalage. Simone de Beauvoir
“ I’ve done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I’ve been swindled all the same because it’s never anything more. Simone de Beauvoir
