To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

- Simone De Beauvoir

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.

- Simone De Beauvoir

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

- Simone De Beauvoir

Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.

- Simone De Beauvoir

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

- Simone De Beauvoir

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

- Simone De Beauvoir

A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

- Simone De Beauvoir

You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done.

- Simone De Beauvoir

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely.…

- Simone De Beauvoir