The Second Sex
seeing clearly is not her business: she was taught to accept masculine authority; she thus forgoes criticizing, examining, and judging for herself.
Simone De Beauvoir • The Second Sex
And in the man’s world, since she does not do anything, her thinking, as it does not flow into any project, is no different from a dream; she does not have the sense of truth, because she lacks efficacy; she struggles only by means of images and words: that is why she accepts the most contradictory assertions without a problem; she does not care
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Woman’s lot is obedience and respect.
Simone De Beauvoir • The Second Sex
Their docility is always accompanied by refusal, their refusal by acceptance; this is similar to the girl’s attitude; but it is more difficult to maintain because it is no longer simply a question of the adult woman dreaming her life through symbols, but of living it.
Simone De Beauvoir • The Second Sex
they belong both to the male world and to a sphere in which this world is challenged; enclosed in this sphere, involved in the male world, they cannot peacefully establish themselves anywhere.
Simone De Beauvoir • The Second Sex
But the types of behaviors denounced are not dictated to woman by her hormones or predestined in her brain’s compartments: they are suggested in negative form by her situation. We will attempt to take a synthetic point of view of her situation, necessarily leading to some repetition, but making it possible to grasp the Eternal Feminine in her
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prostituted by their parents:
Simone De Beauvoir • The Second Sex
she decides she can give herself to all;
Simone De Beauvoir • The Second Sex
“girls” are not psychoanalyzed,