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.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?