The Second Sex Quotes
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Son, if the mountain were smooth, you couldn't climb it.
— Wintley Phipps
Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.
— Cynthia Payne
A few weeks. Sure. Like a few weeks will fix the hole in my head.
— Rainbow Rowell
They care for, protect, and guide God's people, frequently intervening or bring messages to people from God.
— Mary C. Neal
As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
— Alan King
In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Sex does a body good." ...
"I suggest a daily dose then. — Robin Bielman
"I suggest a daily dose then. — Robin Bielman
Taking without being taken in the anguish of becoming prey is the dangerous game of adolescent feminine sexuality.
— Simone De Beauvoir
The second orgasm has a biblical connotation.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
: woman is an eminently poetic reality since man projects onto her everything he is not resolved to be.
— Simone De Beauvoir
The power of food is only second to sex.
— Brian O'Reilly
It must be added that the men who most respect embryonic life are the same ones who do not hesitate to send adults to death in war.
— Simone De Beauvoir
[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be.
— Anne Bronte
The feminine body is expected to be flesh, but discreetly so;
— Simone De Beauvoir
She thought of sex as the Star Trek transport.You vaporized and found yourself navigating another planet within the second or two it took to realign.
— Alice Sebold
On our second date, she kissed me in a bar. I invited her home. We just caught the F train, which seemed like a good omen.
— Alison Bechdel
I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
— Jacki Weaver
Never depend on a single income. Make Investments to create a second source." - Warren Buffet
— Archie Lee
Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind.
— Susan Sontag
Men are the inferior sex. Adam was made first, and the first effort is always the simpler and cruder one, non? With the second, one refines.
— Loretta Chase
I blinked at him just casually talking about my new sex life with his genie-shiny head, and I knew at any second I would break into hysterics.
— Laura Kreitzer
But the answer is obvious: it is easy to believe one is sovereign when alone, to believe oneself strong when carefully refusing to bear any burden.
— Simone De Beauvoir