Source: Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Ch. 4
“More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.”
Bk. 2, Pt.. 5, Ch. 2: The Mother, p. 522
The Second Sex (1949)
Context: 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.
Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni
Source: (1776), Book V, Chapter II, Part II, p. 892.
“After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage!”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
“The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.”
“Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The First Sex, ch. 22 - Woman in the Aquarian Age (1971). "Masculist" is a coined word meant to correlate grammatically with "feminist."
