“ The old woman often finds serenity toward the end of her life when she has given up the fight, when death’s approach frees her from anxiety about the future. Her husband was often older than she, she witnesses his decline with silent complacency: it is her revenge; if he dies first, she cheerfully bears the mourning ”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949). copy citation
Author | Simone de Beauvoir |
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Source | The Second Sex |
Topic | revenge death |
Date | 1949 |
Language | English |
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Note | Translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany Chevallier |
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