To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished -- that of man also.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Published Sources for Quotations Above:
F:
La Femme rompue."
R:
In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997.
A:
The Second Sex, bk. 2, pt. 4, ch. 3 (1953).
N:
In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.
K:
In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997.
