Simone de Beauvoir Quote

There is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.


The Second Sex (1949)


There is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

There is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

There is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

There is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.