there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.
Simone de BeauvoirMen create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they are completely oppressed by men; they take men at their word and believe in the gods that men have made up. The situation of women, their culture, makes them kneel more often before the gods that have been created by men than men themselves do, who know what they've done. To this extent, women will be more fanatical, whether it is for fascism or for totalitarianism.
Simone de BeauvoirIn truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.
Simone de Beauvoir