Simone de Beauvoir

"All oppression creates a state of war."

"What is an adult? A child blown up by age."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women."