Simone de Beauvoir — "I don't know if I'm a good writer, but I'm a good woman."

"The meaning of life is to be found in the project of becoming oneself."

"I have spent my whole life trying to understand what it means to be a woman."

"The great advantage of the present-day bourgeoisie is to possess no moral, no ideal, no religion, no God, no sacred values."

"I am going to die, and I will not be able to write anymore. This is a very serious problem."

"A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day when he should not. But we do not choose the day for the sea. She chooses it for us."