Simone de Beauvoir Quotes About Marriage

Quotes about: Marriage

• Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Marriage, Careers, Benefits

  “Why do we do it?” by Blake Morrison, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2002.

• The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Marriage, Dream, Children

  "The Second Sex". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by H. M. Parshley. Book 2, Part 5, Chapter 2: "The Mother", p. 522, 1972.

• Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Marriage, Destiny, Suffering

• The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Marriage, Lying, Giving

  "The Second Sex". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by H. M. Parshley. Book 2, Part 5, Chapter 2: "The Mother", p. 522, 1972.

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