Simone de Beauvoir

"I am not interested in the living but in the significance of life."

"The point is not for women simply to take power out of men's hands, since that wouldn't change anything about the world."

"The oppressed are not asked for their consent; they are liberated."

"I like being married. I hate being married."

"I am a subject: I am not the Other."

"Nothing is irredeemable when one is young."

"To do nothing is to be complicit with the world as it is."

"I can feel guilty about the world without being guilty of everything in it."

"What is an adventure? It is certainly a breaking away from routine."

"I am what time, circumstance, education, and heredity have made of me."

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others."

"The worst thing that happens to us is that we grow accustomed to unhappiness."

"Art is an expression of, and a protest against, reality."

"The point is that 'progress' is not guaranteed."

"To be a woman and a writer is to be twice stigmatized."

"Liberty is the right to choose one's chains."

"I refuse to accept the premise that woman exists for man."

"Death is not an evil because nothing is evil for a thing to which all things are indifferent."

"One cannot escape oneself by traveling."

"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best."

"Never in my whole life have I heard or read such nonsense."

"Eroticism is not the same as sexuality."

"I do not believe in God because I do not believe it is necessary."

"A human being without a nation is nothing."

"No one can create alone."

"The future is woman."

"It is too late now to do what one should have done long ago."

"The woman who does not choose, chooses servitude."

"I love my friend too much to consent to be loved without love."

"Culture is always to be suspected."