Simone De Beauvoir Quotes
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women. The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them. The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. What is an adult? A child blown up by age. When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.
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