Simone de Beauvoir

"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation."

"I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end."

"I was born in Italy on the 17th May 1279 in a castle in the city of Carmona."

"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me."

"It was said that I refused to grant any value to the maternal instinct and to love. This was not so. I simply asked that women should experience them truthfully and freely, whereas they often use them…"

"A conquest of this kind is never finished; the contingency remains, and, so that he may assert his will, man is even obliged to stir up in the world the outrage he does not want. But this element of f…"

"One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible."

"Stand By Your Man: The strange liaison of Sartre and Beauvoir" gan Louis Menand, yn The New Yorker"