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The Second Sex Quotes
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in one’s self.
Source:
Volume II: Lived Experience, Part One: Formative Years, Chapter 2: The Girl
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Themes
Body
Confidence
Loss
Related Quotes
There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
The flesh is the covering of the soul.
The body – the cage – is everything of the most respectable – but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.
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Book:
The Second Sex
Writer:
Simone de Beauvoir
Genre:
Feminism, Philosophy
Published:
1949
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