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Simone de Beauvoir: In order for...

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Source: The Ethics of Ambiguity, ch. 1, 1948.
-- Simone de Beauvoir, (Jan 9 1908-1986), French writer; She was noted for her attack on the inferior role of women in The Second Sex, 1949.


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