Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
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How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?
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God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.
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I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.
Simone de Beauvoir
