Simone de Beauvoir
  • Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

  • Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

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

  • Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

  • Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.