“...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex
“No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.”
― The Piano Teacher
― The Piano Teacher
“Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive.”
― The Piano Teacher
― The Piano Teacher
“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”
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“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex
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