Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.
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One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.
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A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.
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Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.
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To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.
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If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.
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I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.
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If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.
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If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.