Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex Quotes

“Woman makes man dream; yet she thinks of comfort, of stew for supper; one speaks to her of her soul when she is only a body. And while her lover fondly believes he is pursuing the Ideal, he is actually the plaything of nature, who employs all this mystification for the ends of reproduction. Woman in truth represents the everyday aspects of life; she is silliness, prudence, shabbiness, boredom.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex: A Beginner's Guide