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Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
«To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.»
«Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
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Housework
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clean, day after day, endless, housework, over and over, repetition, repetitions, Sisyphus, soiled, tasks, The Clean, torture, torturing
«Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
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Society
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codified, codifying, decreeing, decrees, destroying, do away with, inferior, inferiority, superiority
«All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
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idols, in point of fact, subordinate, subordinated, subordinates, subordinating, terrifying, The Idols
«Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
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Retirement
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heap, holiday, prolonged, rejection, retirement, scrap, scraps
«That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.»
«Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)