“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 Rap
“Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.” Simone de Beauvoir Woman
“The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.” Simone de Beauvoir Dead
“To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.” Simone de Beauvoir