“Was that what was so painful: that nobody had ever come so close to me- nobody had ever seen me, and come right up to me, and kept going, and looked into my eyes so seriously, with so little fear?”
― Either/Or
― Either/Or
“Either, then, one is to live aesthetically or one is to live ethically.”
― Either/Or
― Either/Or
“If you go back through history, you'll find that the people who have been most eager to rule, to make the laws, to enforce the laws and to tell everybody exactly how God Almighty wants things here on Earth--those people have forgiven themselves and their friends for anything and everything. But they have been absolutely disgusted and terrified by the natural sexuality of common men and women.”
― Welcome to the Monkey House
― Welcome to the Monkey House
“One might ask: if an education geared to the growth of the human mind weakens femininity, will an education geared to femininity weaken the growth of the mind? What is femininity, if it can be destroyed by an education which makes the mind grow, or induced by not letting the mind grow?”
― The Feminine Mystique
― The Feminine Mystique
“I had a powerful sense of having escaped something: of having finally stepped outside the script.”
― Either/Or
― Either/Or
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