"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."
― Simone de Beauvoir
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Love
More From Simone de Beauvoir
- "Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male’s superiority."
- "It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time."
- "What is an adult? A child blown up by age."
More In Love
- "Absence from those we love is self from self – a deadly banishment."― William Shakespeare
- "He is not a lover who does not love forever."― Euripides
- "The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity – love. And the story of a love is not important – what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."― Helen Hayes