Erica Con

“The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.”
― 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. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.”
― Simon De Beavoir