without the aggressive daring of the male, many women are distinguished by the calm tenacity of their passive resistance; they deal with crises, misery, and misfortune more energetically than their husbands; respectful of duration that no haste can conquer, they do not measure their time; when they apply their calm stubbornness to any undertaking, they are sometimes brilliantly successful.
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Author Simone de Beauvoir
Source The Second Sex
Topic stubbornness calm
Date 1949
Language English
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Note Translated by Constance Borde and 
Sheila Malovany Chevallier
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