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«El problema de la mujer siempre ha sido un problema de hombres.»
(Simone de Beauvoir)
Que será que hasta siento que me pierdo 🖋
“I am too intelligent, too demanding and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.” -Simone de Beauvoir.
2/100 days of productivity
Nothing out of normalcy occurred, revised some Russian verbs, did some Italian translations and listened to my daily French and Spanish podcasts. Did some readings for my Astro lectures and revised my Calculus and Waves lecture notes alongside some exercises.
I’ve also finally joined my university’s language research centre, which means that besides my Italian seminars I’ll be able to be involved in many other language classes and cultural exchange programs!
I’m currently reading some of Simone Weil’s works and they are constantly spiralling me into religious crisis in the middle of random coffee shops… truly an entertaining experience.
i know my parents loved me. but i think they loved me all wrong.
joan tierney “interview with the machine woman” // personalmessage.blogpost.com // the front bottoms “father” // pinterest // pinterest // @thesolitarywordsmith on promptuarium // matt maeson “grave digger” // anonymous on promptuarium // catherine lacey “cut”// simon de beauvoir “the woman destroyed”
The little girl's sense of secrecy that developed at prepuberty only grows in importance. She closes herself up in fierce solitude: she refuses to reveal to those around her the hidden self that she considers to be her real self and that is in fact an imaginary character: she plays at being a dancer like Tolstoy's Natasha, or a saint like Marie Leneru, or simply the singular wonder that is herself. There is still an enormous difference between this heroine and the objective face that her parents and friends recognize in her. She is also convinced that she is misunderstood: her relationship with herself becomes even more passionate: she becomes intoxicated with her isolation, feels different, superior, exceptional: she promises that the future will take revenge on the mediocrity of her present life. From this narrow and petty existence she escapes by dreams.
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
“Never forget that it only takes one political, economic or religious crisis for women’s rights to be put in jeopardy. Those rights are never to be taken for granted; you must remain vigilant throughout your life.”
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre (Paris, Tuesday 12 September 1939)
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