In oppressing, one becomes oppressed. Men.... : Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

“ In oppressing, one becomes oppressed. Men are enchained by reason of their very sovereignty; it is because they alone earn money that their wives demand checks, it is because they alone engage in a business or profession that their wives require them to be successful, it is because they alone embody transcendence that their wives wish to rob them of it by taking charge... ”

Simone de Beauvoir
  • From : The Second Sex
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