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."

In a 1976 interview with John "Tito" Gerassi, a French journalist and scholar, de Beauvoir, elucidated
on why a feminist, by default, was a leftist.

"A feminist, whether she calls herself leftist or not, is a leftist by definition. She is struggling for total
equality, for the right to be as important, as relevant, as any man. Therefore, embodied in her revolt
for sexual equality is the demand for class equality," de Beauvoir wrote.

"In a society where each person’s experiences are equivalent to any other, you have automatically
set up equality, which means economic and political equality and much more. Thus, the sex struggle
embodies the class struggle, but the class struggle does not embody the sex struggle."

“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the
context of my life to go on without end.”
― Simone de Beauvoir