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Love, Life, Kindness. Simone de Beauvoir (1975). “The Coming of Age”. 176 Copy quote. No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. Simone de Beauvoir. Men, Arrogance, Arrogant. Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage.
Writing, Ashes, Taste. The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. Simone de Beauvoir. Powerful, Writing, Bad Ass. I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even.
Oct 14, 2002 · Book by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by H. M. Parshley. Book 2, Part 5, Chapter 2: "The Mother", p. 522, 1972. Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society.
Simone de Beauvoir. Tasks, Cleaning, Endless. 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. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present ….
Simone de Beauvoir (1975). “The Coming of Age”. Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it. Simone de Beauvoir. Eye, Mirrors, Age. Simone de Beauvoir (1977).
Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”. It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. Simone de Beauvoir. Death, Time, Destiny.
Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive. Simone de Beauvoir. Reality, Murder, Captives. Simone de Beauvoir (1965). “The prime of life”. 9 Copy quote. Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. Simone de Beauvoir.
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage. My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over ...
Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men. Simone de Beauvoir. Men, Doe, Addresses.
Christian, Littles, Oppression. Simone de Beauvoir (1963). “Nature of the second sex”. There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she will speak of it in exactly the same way as a man. But if she speaks of her own personal problems as a woman, she will obviously speak in ...
