Simone de Beauvoir

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe…

All oppression creates a state of war…

Art is an attempt to integrate evil…

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable…

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women…

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth…

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable…

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or…

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old…

Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay…

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others…

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with…

What is an adult? A child blown up by age…

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom…

To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job…