Simone de Beauvoir

I am a woman, and I exist.

The greatest adventure is to live your life as if it were a work of art.

I am a woman with a mind and a body, and I use both.

The only way to be free is to be yourself.

I am a writer, and I am a woman, and I am an intellectual.

The most marvelous thing about the world is that it is a world of possibility; and the most wondrous fact about man is that he is a possibility.

Man is a being for whom to be is to choose himself; and to choose himself is to choose himself as a freedom.

I wish that every human being should be a master, a master of himself, a master of his own destiny, a master of his own life.

The greatest scandal of the world is the one we get used to.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to choose what you want to do.

A woman's greatest achievement is to be a mother.

It is in the knowledge of the human heart that we find the true measure of man.

The future is a tool, not a destiny.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation.

Man is defined as a being who chooses himself.

The greatest danger for women is to remain within the domestic sphere.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

The problem with women is that they want to be men.

The world is not given, it is made.

There is no such thing as a natural woman. Woman is a social construction.