The Second Sex Quotes

“The day when it will be possible for the woman to love in her strength and not in her weakness, not to escape from herself but to find herself, not out of resignation but to affirm herself, love will become for her as for man the source of life...”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

topic:love women danger

“The happy couple that recognizes each other in love defies the universe and time; it is sufficient in itself, it realizes the absolute.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

topic:love happiness

“To make oneself object, to make oneself passive, is very different from being a passive object: a woman in love is neither asleep nor a corpse; there is a surge in her that ceaselessly falls and rises: it is this surge that creates the spell that...”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

topic:love woman desire

“It must be added that the men who most respect embryonic life are the same ones who do not hesitate to send adults to death in war.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

topic:life death war

“The drama of marriage is not that it does not guarantee the wife the promised happiness—there is no guarantee of happiness—it is that it mutilates her; it dooms her to repetition and routine.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

topic:happiness marriage

“The representation of the world as the world itself is the work of men; they describe it from a point of view that is their own and that they confound with the absolute truth.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

topic:truth men

“If it is said men oppress women, the husband reacts indignantly; he feels oppressed: he is; but in fact, it is the masculine code, the society developed by males and in their interest, that has defined the feminine condition in a form that is now...”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

topic:women oppression

“Economically, men and women almost form two castes; all things being equal, the former have better jobs, higher wages, and greater chances to succeed than their new female competitors; they occupy many more places in industry, in politics, and so...”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

topic:women

“For as long as this equality is not universally recognized and concretely realized, it is very difficult for a woman to act as an equal to a man.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

topic:women equality

“Two separate beings, placed in different situations, confronting each other in their freedom, and seeking the justification of existence through each other, will always live an adventure full of risks and promises.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

topic:freedom adventure relationship risk

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