Simone De Beauvoir The Second Sex Quotes

#1. The relation of woman to husband, of daughter to father, of sister to brother, is a relation of vassalage.

Simone De Beauvoir

#2. Where's the bull? (Callie)
Tied to a tree, eating my boot. I'm just glad my leg is no longer in it. (Sin)
Lad, how did you manage it? (Angus)
I run fast when chased by large bulls. (Sin)

Kinley MacGregor

#3. It's no good being the best actor in the world if nobody sees you because you didn't happen to be there at the right day when a part was being cast.

Roger Moore

#4. If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.

Simone De Beauvoir

#5. What goes around comes around"
"the word you are looking is (Karma)meaning
what bad you have done to someone else. Be careful it will come back in another way at its own time and you wont even realize it.

RICARDO RANDY RAMNATH

#6. : woman is an eminently poetic reality since man projects onto her everything he is not resolved to be.

Simone De Beauvoir

#7. The feminine body is expected to be flesh, but discreetly so;

Simone De Beauvoir

#8. in the car. For seven floors, he's all mine. I dare

Magda Alexander

#9. One could teach knowledge. One could teach skills. One could even, she knew, teach something of the Force. But patience had to be learned alone.

Alan Dean Foster

#10. When I was writing Green Girl,I was reading Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, and she's very dismissive of the young girl. She writes about the girl as being from this space of bad faith and blankness. I'm more interested in a messy space.

Kate Zambreno

#11. So our virtues
Lie in the interpretation of the time:
And power, unto itself most commendable,
Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair
To extol what it hath done.
One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;
Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.

William Shakespeare

#12. But the answer is obvious: it is easy to believe one is sovereign when alone, to believe oneself strong when carefully refusing to bear any burden.

Simone De Beauvoir

#13. The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it.

Patrick DeWitt

#14. The place of happiness you can return to is in the arms of the one you love.

Yuki Yoshihara

#15. ; the man who does not "understand" a woman is happy to replace his subjective deficiency with an objective resistance; instead of admitting his ignorance, he recognizes the presence of a mystery exterior to himself: here is an excuse that flatters his laziness and vanity at the same time.

Simone De Beauvoir

#16. The worst thing you can do is to sit and brood and feel sorry for yourself. Nor should you feel wrong about doing this, since all of us do from time to time.

Frederick Lenz

#17. 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

#18. Aside from hospitality and delicious food, our [restaurateurs'] job is to entertain people. Restaurants should make people feel special, excited and fulfilled.

Joe Bastianich

#19. Taking without being taken in the anguish of becoming prey is the dangerous game of adolescent feminine sexuality.

Simone De Beauvoir

#20. In the deception he perpetrates, the Antichrist will attempt to counterfeit the Millennial Reign of Christ

James Jacob Prasch

#21. The strength of one's opinion should not exceed their knowledge on the matter.

Eric Hirzel

#22. Getting too much advice from your partner is a little bit like ... it can cause conflict. As much as you're married, you're still an individual and you still have your own self of yourself.

Lights

#23. My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.

Juliet Mills

#24. Primitive people alienate themselves in their mana, their totem; civilized people in their individual souls, their egos, their names, their possessions, and their work: here is the first temptation of inauthenticity.

Simone De Beauvoir