Simone-de-beauvoir Quote by Kate Zambreno

“Henry Miller, Genet, Sade, Bataille are really important writers for me and I love them, but I feel often they don’t love me, you…

— Kate Zambreno

“I think that it’s a space that there are a lot of projections onto—the soon-to-be sexualized and already-sexualized young woman. There are so many…

— Tamara Faith Berger

I think that The Second Sex will seem an old, dated book, after a while. But nonetheless, a book which will have made its…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“[ From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex' ] Beauvoir herself was…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“The power of food is only second to sex.”

— Brian O'Reilly

“There is no such thing as maternal "instinct": the word does not in any case apply to the human species. The mother's attitude is…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“It must be added that the men who most respect embryonic life are the same ones who do not hesitate to send adults to…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Oh, my dear, this is worse than I expected! A strange girl is always a bore among good friends, but one can generally manage…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“Of course Sartre and Beauvoir were not alone in being seduced by Communism. Many of the Auden generation, on both sides of the Channel,…

— Carole Seymour-Jones

“Still now I send letters into space Hoping that some mailman somewhere will track you down And recognise you from the descriptions in my…

— Sarah Kay

“Las mujeres no son solidarias como sexo: ante todo están ligadas a su clase; los intereses de las burguesas y los de las mujeres…

— Simone de Beauvoir

When a boy writes off the world, it's done with sloppy misspelled words, if / a girl writes off the world it's done in cursive?

— Sage Francis