Quotes Tagged With :beauvoir

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

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I’ve been swindled....

The little girl feels that her body is escaping her, that it is no longer the clear expression of her....

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

I hadn't known Chancel very well, but ten days earlier I had seen him laughing with the others around....

To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing....

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

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

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.

; the man who does not "understand" a woman is happy to replace his subjective deficiency with an objective....