January 9th: Simone de Beauvoir

This date in 1908 was the birth of Simone de Beauvoir, French writer. 10 things she said:

1. Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
2. To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
3. One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
4. This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
5. If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
6. 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.
7. What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.
8. I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
9. Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.
10. I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.