Simone de Beauvoir

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

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

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.